Meta is reorganizing its artificial intelligence team as it joins numerous companies striving to develop artificial intelligence on a large scale.
Mark Zuckerberg stated that the change could encourage the company to accelerate its research and improve the Metaverse, as the CEO increasingly focuses on artificial intelligence research.
Currently, Meta has two teams working on artificial intelligence research. The first team includes the fundamental artificial intelligence research team that started its work in 2013, and the other team focuses on the company’s user-centric artificial intelligence experience.
Zuckerberg explained that the company aims to close the gap between them with these changes, intending to expand both groups.
The number of employees to be added to artificial intelligence efforts by Meta’s CEO was not mentioned, despite the company’s expansion in this field, as over 20,000 jobs have been eliminated since 2022.
Zuckerberg said in a video posted on Threds that the changes are aimed at supporting Meta’s long-term goals such as developing comprehensive artificial intelligence, responsibly opening its sources, and making it accessible and beneficial to everyone in our daily lives.
Zuckerberg is embracing a recent change to position Meta as a leading company in the field of artificial intelligence, amidst the high density of companies and projects in this area.
The creation of comprehensive artificial intelligence – a type of artificial intelligence usually comparable to human intelligence – is of interest to many of these companies, such as x.ai, OpenAI, and Google.
Zuckerberg is now leveraging Meta’s immense resources in this effort. Zuckerberg wrote: “We are building many large infrastructures, and we will have around 350,000 H100 chips from NVIDIA by the end of this year, totaling approximately 600,000 chips equivalent to one H100 chip in the computing area when including other GPU units.”
The value of an H100 chip is about $25,000, meaning that spending on this type of chip could reach up to nine billion dollars.
At the same time, Zuckerberg affirmed that he does not intend to abandon the Metaverse and plans to also benefit from developments in artificial intelligence within it.
Zuckerberg stated that the two fundamental parts of our vision, artificial intelligence and the Metaverse, are closely intertwined.
It is worth noting that linking AI work in the future world is not a new idea for Zuckerberg, who spent much of last year’s Connect event promoting generative artificial intelligence.
The Metaverse is not widely popular, although Zuckerberg believes that this situation may change in the future with the development of smart VR glasses embedded with artificial intelligence.
He said: “I believe that by the end of the decade, many will constantly talk about artificial intelligence all day long, using smart glasses like the ones we are creating in collaboration with Ray-Ban.”
