As the summer of 2022 came to a close, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg gathered his top lieutenants for a five-hour dissection of the company's computing capacity, focused on its ability to do cutting-edge artificial intelligence work, according to a company memo dated Sept. 20 reviewed by Reuters. They had a th
As the summer of 2022 came to a close, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg gathered his top lieutenants for a five-hour dissection of the company's computing capacity, focused on its ability to do cutting-edge artificial intelligence work, according to a company memo dated Sept. 20 reviewed by Reuters.
For more than a year, Meta has been engaged in a massive project to whip its AI infrastructure into shape. While the company has publicly acknowledged"playing a little bit of catch-up" on AI hardware trends, details of the overhaul - including capacity crunches, leadership changes and a scrapped AI chip project - have not been reported previously.
Those investments have coincided with a period of severe financial squeeze for Meta, which has been laying off employees since November at a scale not seen since the dotcom bust. However, GPUs are also more expensive than other chips, with chipmaker Nvidia Corp controlling 80 per cent of the market and maintaining a commanding lead on accompanying software, the sources said.Instead, until last year, Meta largely ran AI workloads using the company's fleet of commodity central processing units , the workhorse chip of the computing world, which has filled data centers for decades but performs AI work poorly.
At a board meeting before he left, Thiel told Zuckerberg and his executives they were complacent about Meta's core social media business while focusing too much on the metaverse, which he said left the company vulnerable to the challenge from TikTok, according to two sources familiar with the exchange.
Graphic: Meta's U.S. data center status - https://www.reuters.com/graphics/METAPLATFORMS-ARTIFICIALINTELLIGENCE/mopakdkmzpa/chart.png
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