Zuckerberg claims that Meta is investing heavily in the development of artificial intelligence on par with human intelligence.

The goal of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is to develop artificial general intelligence (AGI) and relocate Meta's FAIR AI research team to the same area of the business as the group developing generative AI solutions for Meta's app portfolio. With this action, the company hopes to directly reach billions of users of Meta and feed the generative AI trend.

“We’ve come to this view that, in order to build the products that we want to build, we need to build for general intelligence,” Zuckerberg tells me in an exclusive interview. “I think that’s important to convey because a lot of the best researchers want to work on the more ambitious problems.”

Companies are fighting it out for a limited pool of researchers and engineers in the AI talent war. CEOs such as Zuckerberg are frequently embroiled in similar struggles to retain important hires or stop researchers from leaving for other companies. In the field of AI, the computational power required to run and train huge models is the most limited resource. By the end of this year, Meta will have acquired over 340,000 H100 GPUs from Nvidia, and by the end of 2024, it will have about 600,000 GPUs in stock.

Nobody in the AI field, not even Mark Zuckerberg, is certain what artificial general intelligence (AGI) is or will be. He believes that it will eventually arrive, but it will happen gradually rather than all at once.

Llama 2, Meta's most recent large language model, was released last year, which contributed to its new, wider focus on AGI. With the ability to generate code, the business is currently training Llama 3, emphasizing sophisticated reasoning and planning skills.

As the recent near collapse of OpenAI demonstrated, there is a great deal of discussion over who will ultimately manage artificial intelligence. Thanks to his voting influence over the company's stock, Zuckerberg has complete control over Meta. This gives him a unique power that could be dangerously exacerbated if AGI is ever attained. His response is the Llama playbook that Meta has used up to this point, which is regarded as open source.

Despite Zuckerberg's personal agenda, his open vision for AI ultimately results in a consolidation of power albeit in a different way. Meta is a highly profitable social media firm with already more users than practically any company on the planet. AI features have the potential to make Meta's platforms even more engaging and beneficial. Additionally, if Meta can successfully standardize AI development by making its models publicly available, its ecosystem-wide influence will only increase.

The largest social networking firm in the world, Meta, is concentrating on the metaverse, and its first product, Ray-Ban smart glasses, is gaining popularity. But fully functional AR glasses appear more and farther off. Although virtual reality is still a tiny market, Apple's Vision Pro supports its headset bet.

With the addition of a visual AI assistant to its Ray-Ban smart glasses, Meta is still investing more than $15 billion annually in the project. According to the business, artificial intelligence will create virtual environments in which actual people will be accompanied by AI characters. The goal of Meta is to create a connected world in which people can communicate with AIs.

Via Verge