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Breaking News: Meta, a major Big Tech company, is accelerating its AI development efforts. (Quite a surprise!) In this scenario, the key player is Meta, which, according to Reuters<\/em>, is testing its first in-house AI training chip. The goal is to reduce its massive infrastructure costs and dependence on NVIDIA, a company that seems to elicit strong reactions from Mark Zuckerberg<\/a>. If successful, Meta plans to utilize this chip for training purposes by 2026.<\/p>\n

Meta has reportedly initiated a small-scale deployment of the dedicated accelerator chip, designed specifically for AI tasks, making it more power-efficient than general-purpose NVIDIA GPUs<\/a>. This deployment follows the completion of its first “tape-out,” a critical phase in silicon development where a complete design is sent for a manufacturing test run.<\/p>\n

The chip is part of the Meta Training and Inference Accelerator (MTIA) series<\/a>, the company’s family of custom in-house silicon focused on generative AI, recommendation systems, and advanced research.<\/p>\n

Last year, the company began using an MTIA chip for inference<\/a>, a predictive process that occurs behind the scenes in AI models. Meta utilized the inference chip for its Facebook and Instagram news feed recommendation systems. Reuters<\/em> reports that it plans to start using the training silicon for these purposes as well. The long-term plan for both chips is to begin with recommendations and eventually use them for generative products like the Meta AI chatbot<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As one of NVIDIA’s largest customers, after placing orders<\/a> for billions of dollars’ worth of GPUs in 2022, Meta is now shifting its focus to in-house development. This move comes after the company previously abandoned an in-house inference silicon that failed a small-scale test deployment, much like the current test for the training chip.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
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