Meta Is Developing the World's Fastest AI Supercomputer to Fuel its Metaverse Vision
A new article on Social Media Today reports that as it looks to a future in the currently theoretical 'metaverse', Meta will need to up its computing power and systems in order to facilitate simultaneous connection in wholly immersive digital worlds, while it'll also need more advanced computing power to fuel the next stage of its AI plans, in various forms.
Meta is developing a new AI Research SuperCluster (RSC), which it says will eventually become the fastest AI supercomputer in the world, when it's fully built out by mid-2022. The advanced system will eventually be able to perform '5 exaflops of mixed precision compute' at peak. Which, I have no real idea of what that truly means, but basically, Meta's new, advanced computational system will be able to process huge amounts of data, facilitating development in a wide range of applications, with a specific view towards the next stage of its metaverse vision.
AR is clearly a key focus, with Meta developing its own AR-enabled glasses that will expand the use cases for the technology. The RSC will provide increased capacity to develop more complex AR systems, which could advance Meta's tools beyond what's currently available, which would ideally see its AR glasses become the top of the line, most advanced model available, helping Meta potentially dominate the space over rivals Snapchat and Apple.
Meta is developing a new AI Research SuperCluster (RSC), which it says will eventually become the fastest AI supercomputer in the world, when it's fully built out by mid-2022. The advanced system will eventually be able to perform '5 exaflops of mixed precision compute' at peak. Which, I have no real idea of what that truly means, but basically, Meta's new, advanced computational system will be able to process huge amounts of data, facilitating development in a wide range of applications, with a specific view towards the next stage of its metaverse vision.
| "RSC will help Meta's AI researchers build new and better AI models that can learn from trillions of examples; work across hundreds of different languages; seamlessly analyze text, images, and video together; develop new augmented reality tools; and much more. We hope RSC will help us build entirely new AI systems that can, for example, power real-time voice translations to large groups of people, each speaking a different language, so they can seamlessly collaborate on a research project or play an AR game together." |
