‘The first, which we call Prometheus, will go into operation in 2026; We are also building Hyperion, which could reach a capacity of 5 gigawatts over the years, ”said the company’s CEO
The CEO of the goal, Mark Zuckerbergplans to invest “hundreds of billions of dollars” in Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure (IA), an announcement with which it aims to achieve its stated goal of building a “superintelligence.” “We are building computer networks from various power gigawatts,” said Zuckerberg on Monday (14), in a message published on social networks Facebook and Threads.
These data centers, which is totally different from existing from existing to host cloud servers, are designed specifically to train and host Generative AI models, which require a large calculation power, advanced chips and a lot of energy. THE Goal It has been behind the Generative AI, dominated by OpenAi since the release of ChatgPT and Google. All leaders in the sector aim to create an AI called “general” or “superintelligence”, with cognitive abilities higher than those of humans, capable of making scientific discoveries and creating technologies.
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“The first [rede de informática]which we call Prometheus, will go into operation in 2026. We are also building Hyperion, which could reach a capacity of 5 gigawatts over the years, ”said Zuckerberg. A power of 5 gigawatts equals the annual consumption of between 1 million and 4 million American homes, which are the most energy in the world.
Last month, the social networking giant disbursed more than $ 14 billion to acquire 49% of Scale AI, specializing in preparing the data used to develop AI models. According to OpenAi chief Sam Altman, the goal also offered a contractual bonus of over $ 100 million to “many” employees of his company, and a similar amount in annual salary.
In an internal memorandum, Zuckerberg confirmed that seven of them had changed a company, as well as Scale AI Director-General Alexandr Wang, and Anthropic and Google employees. The great AI model of the latest goal, Llama 4, launched in April, disappointed. It is behind the heavy American, Chinese, and French weights in the ranking created by the LMarena independent evaluation platform on programming, and behind its predecessor Llama 3 at the text interface.
*With information from AFP
Posted by Carolina Ferreira
Source: Jovempan
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