meta has introduced the latest in a custom-made chip designed for artificial intelligence workloads.
The new version has improved performance compared to the previous generation. AI tools It helps power Meta's ranking and recommendation advertising model. Facebook and Instagramthe tech giant said in its own blog post on Wednesday (April 10).
“These chips are part of our growing investments in our AI infrastructure, enabling us to deliver new and better experiences across our apps and technology,” the company said in a post. ing.
Last year, the company announced Meta Training and Inference Accelerator (MTIA), a first-generation AI inference accelerator designed in-house with Meta's AI workloads in mind.
“The next generation MTIA is part of a broader full-stack development program for domain-specific, custom silicon for our unique workloads and systems,” the release states.
The new version “more than doubles the compute and memory bandwidth of the previous solution while maintaining tight integration with workloads,” Meta added. It is designed to efficiently provide ranking and recommendation models that provide high-quality recommendations to users. ”
In an interview with PYMNTS last month, John Likatoassistant professor of computer science and engineering. University of South Floridanoted that Mehta is one of the candidates who is continuously ready to take on the challenge. OpenAIPosition of AI space.
“Right now, probably the most important factor is having access to a huge amount of computing power,” he said. “Companies like Google and OpenAI have millions (perhaps billions) of dollars worth of GPU processors and more advanced computing technologies, including: [tensor processing units (TPUs)]”
In other related AI news, Meta announced last week that it has changed the way it handles media. operated by AI and other means.
The company's three platforms — Facebook, Instagram; thread — We will now label a broader range of content as “AI-generated” if we detect industry-standard AI image indicators or if the user uploading the content reveals that it was generated by AI. Masu. monica bickertMeta's vice president of content policy, said in the company's blog post.
Under Meta's previous policy, only videos that used AI to appear to say something no other person said were eligible.
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