clearly needs to improve its AI development tools and processes.
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Update time : 2023-05-04 11:07:29
Meta's internal emails show that in late summer 2022, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg gathered his key aides for a five-hour analysis of Meta's computing power, focusing on Meta's ability to do advanced artificial intelligence (AI) work.
According to internal emails, company announcements, and sources close to the situation, Meta faces a difficult problem: despite massive investments in AI research, Meta has been slow to make progress on how to introduce AI-friendly hardware and software systems into its main business. With Meta increasingly relying on AI to support further growth, this is affecting the company's pace of driving innovation across the board.
This email from Meta's new head of infrastructure, Santosh Janardhan, reveals that "we are significantly behind in terms of tools, workflows and processes in developing for AI and need to invest heavily in this area." The email, posted on Meta's intranet in September, first came to light recently.
The email also said that supporting AI efforts would require Meta to "fundamentally change its hardware infrastructure design, software systems, and approach to providing a stable platform".
For more than a year, Meta has been working on a massive project to fill in the gaps in its AI infrastructure. While Meta has openly admitted to being somewhat behind on hardware development for AI, details of this, including arithmetic pressures, management changes and an abandoned AI chip project, have never before been reported.
Commenting on the email and related restructuring initiatives, Meta spokesman Jon Carvill said, "With deep expertise in AI research and engineering development, Meta has a proven track record of building and deploying state-of-the-art large-scale infrastructure".
He said, "As we deliver new AI experiences for applications and consumer products, we are confident that we can continue to expand our infrastructure capabilities to meet short and long-term needs." However, he declined to respond to the news that Meta was abandoning its AI chip project. According to Meta's disclosures, the restructuring has caused the company's capital expenditures to increase by about $4 billion per quarter, almost doubling from 2021, and has led to the suspension or cancellation of data centre construction plans in each of its four locations.
Meta is also facing financial pressures. Since November last year, Meta has initiated massive layoffs not seen since the dot-com bust of the millennium.
On the other hand, Microsoft-backed OpenAI released ChatGPT on 30 November last year, an AI chatbot that quickly became the fastest-growing consumer app in history in terms of users and sparked an AI arms race among tech giants. Large tech companies are launching their own generative AI products. In addition to recognising patterns in data, this AI can also generate textual and visual content based on input in a human-like manner.
Multiple sources say that generative AI consumes a lot of computing power, making it even more urgent for Meta to expand its computing infrastructure.
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