Facebook parent Meta on track to build fastest AI supercomputer in the world

• Meta said its new research team, AI Research SuperCluster (RSC), will help build the AI models

• Meta plans to complete the computers by mid-2022

Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc (NYSE: FB) said on Monday that its new artificial intelligence supercomputer will be the fastest in the world once completed in mid-2022.

In a blog post, Meta said its new research team, AI Research SuperCluster (RSC) will help build AI models. The models will learn from trillions of examples, work across hundreds of languages, and analyze text, images, and video together to determine if the content was harmful.

"This research will not only help keep people safe on our services today but also in the future, as we build for the metaverse," the company said in a blog post.

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Metaverse, which has been quite popular recently, allows people to share virtual environments through different devices.

"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," Meta Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post on Monday.

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Meta said that it had partnered with team from Nvidia Corp (NYSE: NVDA), Pure Storage Inc (NYSE: PSTG) and Penguin Computing Inc to build the supercomputer, reported Reuters.

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