Why Meta Is Building the Fastest AI Supercomputer in the World

If you’re curious about the metaverse or anything that Meta is doing around that, you’ll probably be excited to know that the company is working on an AI supercomputer.

Meta has announced that it is building the world’s fastest AI supercomputer, which will aid its plans to build the metaverse. But why exactly is Meta Building the fastest AI supercomputer in the world? Keep reading to find out.

Meta Announces AI Supercomputer

Meta has announced an AI supercomputer called “the AI Research SuperCluster” (RSC).

Kevin Lee, Technical Program Manager at Meta, announced the supercomputer in a blog post, which read:

Today, Meta is announcing that we’ve designed and built the AI Research SuperCluster (RSC) — which we believe is among the fastest AI supercomputers running today and will be the fastest AI supercomputer in the world when it’s fully built out in mid-2022. Our researchers have already started using RSC to train large models in natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision for research, with the aim of one day training models with trillions of parameters.

Meta believes its AI supercomputer will fuel the AI technologies used to build the metaverse. So, in essence, the RSC supercomputer will be part of the hardware that drives the metaverse.

As explained inMeta’s blog post :

Ultimately, the work done with RSC will pave the way toward building technologies for the next major computing platform — the metaverse, where AI-driven applications and products will play an important role.

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