Facebook parent Meta unveils chip for AI programs

Facebook parent company Meta has unveiled its first custom silicon chip for processing AI programs called the Meta Training and Inference Accelerator, or MTIA. It also talked about a new AI-optimised data centre design and the second phase of 16,000 GPU supercomputers for AI research.

According to the company, the new efforts in the direction of AI, along with the additional projects still underway, will enable it to develop larger, more sophisticated AI models and then deploy them efficiently at scale.

“We’re even reimagining how we code by deploying CodeCompose, a generative AI-based coding assistant we developed to make our developers more productive throughout the software development lifecycle,” the company said in a statement.