The parent company of Facebook, Meta, claims its newly created artificial intelligence (AI) “Research Super Cluster” (RSC) will “pave the way” toward building the Metaverse.
The social media giant says it believes the RSC is already one of the fastest supercomputers in the world and will take the top spot when fully operational in mid-2022, according to a January 24 blog post introducing the hardware.
“The development of the next generation of advanced AI will require powerful new computers capable of performing trillions of operations per second”the company wrote.
“Ultimately, the work done with RSC will pave the way towards building technologies for the next great computing platform – the metaverse, where AI-driven products and applications will play a major role.”
CEO Mark Zuckerberg added in a January 25 Facebook post:
“The experiences we are building for the metaverse require enormous computing power (Trillions of operations/second!) and RSC will enable new AI models that can learn from billions of examples, understand hundreds of languages, and much more.”
The machine will be able to work in hundreds of different languages to develop “advanced AI” for computer vision, natural language processing and speech recognition..
“We hope that RSC will help us build entirely new AI systems that can, for example, power real-time voice translations to large groups of people, each of whom speaks a different language, so they can collaborate seamlessly in a research project or play an AR game together.”
Meta did not reveal where the computer is located, nor the costs associated with its development and creation..
decentralized finance analyst Camilla Russo compared the new Meta machine to the Ethereum network, which is considered by some in the industry to be a kind of global “supercomputer.”.
Facebook @Goal builds a supercomputer in private to better monetize users’ data in its metaverse.
ethereum builds a world computer in the open that allows users to control their data in the metaverse.
not the same. https://t.co/lTFIFRw840
— Camila Russo (@CamiRusso) January 24, 2022
The @Meta company is building a supercomputer privately to better monetize user data in its metaverse.
Ethereum builds an open world computer that allows users to control their data in the metaverse.
is not the same.
In December 2021, the vice president of Intel’s graphics and accelerated computing systems group, Raja Koduri said that the current computational infrastructure will have to improve a thousand times in order to power the metaverse..
“need to access petaflops [mil teraflops] of computing in less than a millisecond, less than ten milliseconds for real-time uses”Koduri told Quartz at the time.
the metaverse, largely described as the next iteration of the Internet, refers to a virtual space in which people can work, play, and socialize, often using virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) technology.
In October, Facebook changed its name to Meta to reflect its renewed focus beyond social media.
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