Meta buys AI networking chip team from Graphcore
hired an Oslo-based team that until late last year was building artificial intelligence networking technology at British chip unicorn Graphcore.
Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, has become increasingly reliant on AI technology to target advertising, select posts for its apps’ feeds and purge banned content from its platforms. Meta already has an in-house unit designing several kinds of chips aimed at speeding up and maximising efficiency for its AI work, including a network chip that performs a sort of air traffic control function for servers, two sources said.
In addition to its network chip, Meta is also designing a complex computing chip to both train AI models and perform inference, a process in which the trained models make judgments and generate responses to prompts, although it does not expect that chip to be ready until around 2025.
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