Meta and Nvidea Reveal Plan to Create a New Digital World
In an era of digital revolutions and rapid technological change, Meta and NVIDIA have once again captured the world's attention. At the recent SIGGRAPH conference, two of the leading players in high technology, Jensen Huang and Mark Zuckerberg, revealed their ambitious plans and strategies that could change the future of artificial intelligence and the metaverse. Imagine a world where AI doesn't just answer your questions, but becomes your personal assistant, where virtual reality becomes part of everyday life, and innovative technologies open up new horizons.
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At the SIGGRAPH conference on computer graphics and interactive technologies around the world, which was held in Colorado from July 28 to August 1, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang and Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg had an interesting fireside chat. It was Zuckerberg's first time at SIGGRAPH, where he was invited by Huang to participate. During the event, in addition to discussing personal interests, Zuckerberg and Huang exchanged leather jackets, which symbolized their close collaboration and mutual respect.
Meta continues to strengthen its partnership with NVIDIA. The company recently unveiled the Llama 3.1 405B, which was trained using 16,000 H100 GPUs, powerful graphics processing units designed by NVIDIA to accelerate AI workloads. Zuckerberg said Meta plans to purchase 350,000 H100 GPUs this year, bringing Meta’s total GPU count to 600,000, making it one of NVIDIA’s key customers.
In addition, NVIDIA is also an important customer of Meta. Huang noted that NVIDIA has been actively using and optimizing the Llama 3.1 405B model, emphasizing that the launch of the previous model, Llama 2, was a significant event in the field of AI, activating various industries. Llama 2 used NVIDIA's A100 GPU, providing high performance in data processing tasks.
Meta and NVIDIA are also heavily invested in the metaverse, a virtual space that connects the physical and digital worlds. Huang emphasized that the ideas for smart glasses like Ray-Ban fit with NVIDIA’s goals of bringing AI models to Omniverse, a platform for creating and interacting with digital worlds.
What are the key points of their discussion?
I have identified four key aspects that illustrate Meta's ambitious plans to lead in generative AI and the metaverse:
1. AI is changing the approach to recommendations
Zuckerberg noted that everything related to generative AI is a significant revolution. It affects recommendations on Instagram and Facebook, which will now be improved by AI. Previously, recommendation systems focused on public content, but with the development of generative AI, their role will expand, helping users follow new events and important things.
Zuckerberg said his goal is to combine different AI models to make more accurate recommendations across Instagram and Facebook, using one universal AI model that will span different types of content and systems, providing more personalized and relevant recommendations for users.
2. Meta launches AI Studio
Zuckerberg announced the creation of the AI Studio platform, which will allow anyone to create their own AI assistants. The platform will provide tools for creating interactive agents that can perform various tasks, from text generation to content creation. AI assistants will be able to understand user intentions and offer solutions based on these intentions.
3. Openness as a strategic choice
Meta has an open-source strategy, which helps the company reduce costs and create an ecosystem based on open standards. Zuckerberg explained that openness allows Meta to improve its technology and benefit from the ecosystem. For example, the open source code of the PyTorch framework and Llama models facilitates wider adoption and improvement of technologies in the AI community.
4. Betting on a new generation of computing
Zuckerberg believes that AR (augmented reality) glasses could be the next mobile computing device, while MR (mixed reality) headsets will serve as workstations and hosts. Meta continues to advance AR and VR technologies, planning new holographic glasses and stylish smart glasses that will combine features such as speakers, microphones, and headphones, giving users new ways to interact with the virtual world.
So, despite the challenges and the decline in Meta shares since its rebranding in 2021, the company is once again becoming a major player in tech thanks to the explosive growth of generative AI and aggressive investments in the metaverse. Meta continues to pave the way for the future by bringing together cutting-edge technologies and creating innovative solutions for the next generation of computing platforms.
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