New Delhi: In a bid to boost its capacity to process data, Meta (formerly Facebook) CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced it is building the world’s fastest artificial intelligence (AI) supercomputer as part of the company's ambitious plan to build a virtual metaverse. Zuckerberg made the announcement via his Facebook page: "Meta has developed what we believe is the world's fastest AI supercomputer. We're calling it RSC for AI Research SuperCluster. The experiences we're building for the metaverse require enormous compute power (quintillions of operations / second!) and RSC will enable new AI models that can learn from trillions of examples, understand hundreds of languages, and more. Congrats to the team on building RSC!"
RSC will help Meta’s AI researchers build new and better AI models that can learn from trillions of examples, work across hundreds of different languages, seamlessly analyse text, images, and video together as well as develop new augmented reality (AR) tools, among others.
"Our researchers will be able to train the largest models needed to develop advanced AI for computer vision, NLP, speech recognition, and more. We hope RSC will help us build entirely new AI systems that can, for example, power real-time voice translations to large groups of people, each speaking a different language, so they can seamlessly collaborate on a research project or play an AR game together," the company wrote in a statement in a 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."
Upon completion, RSC will consist of 16,000 GPUs and be almost three times more powerful than it is now. According to Meta, at this point, it will be the fastest AI-optimised supercomputer in the world, performing at nearly 5 exaflops.