Meta has purchased AI training chips and built out data centers to create a more powerful new chatbot that it hopes will be as advanced as OpenAI’s GPT-4, according to The Wall Street Journal. The company reportedly plans to start training the next major language model in early 2024, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg apparently pushing for it to allow companies to create free AI tools again.
The log writes that Meta has purchased more Nvidia H100 AI training chips and is strengthening its infrastructure so that this time it won’t have to rely on Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform to train the new chatbot. The company reportedly put together a group to build the model earlier this year, with the aim of accelerating the creation of AI tools that can mimic human expressions.
That goal feels like a natural extension of rumored generative AI features Meta has already been working on. A leak from June claimed there was an Instagram chatbot with 30 personalities being tested, which sounds a lot like the unannounced AI personas the company was set to launch this month.