Meta, owned by Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, announced that it has completed the first phase of a new supercomputer powered by artificial intelligence.
Zuckerberg said in a statement that the new computer, called RSC, will be the world's fastest artificially intelligent supercomputer.
Meta says that the RSC computer will help researchers develop better artificial intelligence models that can learn from trillions of examples, and among other things, these models will be able to build better augmented reality tools and "smoothly analyze text, images and video together."
According to Meta, a large part of the work of this computer serves the company's vision for its next project, "Metaverse", because applications and products powered by artificial intelligence will play a major role in it.
According to “Sputnik”, the RSC computer will help play real-time voice translations for large groups of people, each speaking a different language, so that they can seamlessly collaborate on a research project or play an “artificial intelligence” game.
Work on the RSC computer began a year and a half ago, when Meta engineers designed its various systems (cooling, power, networking and cabling) from scratch.
The first stage of RSC is already in the works, consisting of 760 NVIDIA GGXA 1000 systems with 6,080 graphics processing units (GPU) connected, a type of processor that is particularly good at tackling machine learning problems.