Breaking: A Big Tech company is ramping up its AI development. (Whaaat??) In this case, the protagonist of this now-familiar tale is Meta, which Reuters reports is testing its first in-house chip for AI training. The idea is to lower its gargantuan infrastructure costs and reduce its dependence on NVIDIA (a company that apparently brings out Mark Zuckerberg’s “adult language” side). If all goes well, Meta hopes to use it for training by 2026.
Meta has reportedly kicked off a small-scale deployment of the dedicated accelerator chip, which
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