Meta will pour “hundreds of billions of dollars” right into a fleet of US knowledge centres because it seems to construct up its AI capabilities, in response to founder Mark Zuckerberg.
The social media big’s plan entails a number of so-called ‘titan clusters’, every designed to energy the corporate’s push in direction of what it describes as ‘superintelligence’ – AI able to out-thinking the neatest people. Zuckerberg stated one forthcoming facility would span an space not too removed from the dimensions of the island of Manhattan in New York.
Prometheus would be the first multi-gigawatt website to be constructed underneath Meta’s new plans, and it’s scheduled to come back on-line in New Albany, Ohio, in 2026. It is going to be joined by Hyperion, a Louisiana-based cluster that might scale to 5 gigawatts and is anticipated to be absolutely operational by 2030.
“We’re constructing a number of extra titan clusters as nicely,” Zuckerberg wrote on Threads, including that the initiatives have been given “names befitting their scale and influence”.
Meta’s willingness to splash to money to win the AI race
Meta is keen to dig deep and spend to win the AI race, with the corporate not solely committing to spend ‘a whole lot of billions’ of {dollars} on new knowledge centres, but additionally is within the midst of a fierce expertise battle. In response to WIRED, the firm has offered some AI specialists pay packages worth up to $300 million over four years, whereas OpenAI’s Sam Altman noted that some of his engineers had been offered $100 million sign-on bonuses – Meta disputes each figures.
“These statements are unfaithful – the dimensions and construction of those compensation packages have been misrepresented far and wide,” Meta spokesperson Andy Stone insisted. “Some folks have chosen to enormously exaggerate what’s occurring for their very own functions.”
Regardless of potential misrepresentation of the dimensions of some folks’s packages, it’s plain Meta has an urge for food for poaching prime expertise. That features Ruoming Pang, who just lately introduced he was becoming a member of Meta from Apple, the place he was Head of AI Fashions. That will likely be an enormous blow for Apple which has lagged behind different tech giants within the AI race, regardless of Siri ushering within the age of digital assistants again in 2011.
