Facebook's parent company, Meta Platforms Inc, has announced that members of its research team have created a new supercomputer for artificial intelligence research and believe that when it is completed in mid-2022, it will be the fastest in the world.
In a blog post, Meta says its new AI Research SuperCluster (RSC) will enable the company to develop an even better supercomputer for AI research. Modules should use numerous features, understand trillions of post contexts, work in hundreds of languages, and simultaneously analyze text, images, and videos to determine whether content is harmful.
Experts worked on the supercomputer for two years. They believe that it could help them develop even better software based on artificial intelligence technology, for example, enable better monitoring of hate speech in posts on a popular social network, Hina agency reports.
"In addition to the research contributing to the security of users of our services today, it will also contribute to their security in the future as we create the metaverse," the company announced on its blog.
The metaverse is a kind of collection of digital places within which people interact with each other and with these systems. This includes everything from social media platforms to video games and online banking sites. The ultimate reach of the metaverse is virtual reality, which we encounter today in some video games.
The company has announced that it is developing new tools for virtual reality. According to CNN, it could soon start developing "completely new AI systems", such as simultaneous translations for large groups of people speaking different languages, which is one possible application of this highly sophisticated device.
Zuckerberg's Facebook changed its name to Meta in October, signaling its new focus on the metaverse, which it believes will succeed the mobile Internet.
"The experiences we're building the metaverse on require enormous computing power—quintillions of operations per second, and our supercomputer will enable new AI models that can learn from trillions of examples, understand hundreds of languages, and more," Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post. .
A spokesman for Meta said the company has teamed up with teams from Nvidia Corp, Pure Storage Inc and Penguin Computing Inc, which build supercomputers.
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