Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:) on Wednesday announced details of its next-generation in-house artificial intelligence accelerator chip.
The social media giant said it is building its next generation of large-scale infrastructure with AI in mind, including new generative AI products, recommendation systems, and support for advanced AI research.
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Last year, Meta Platforms announced Meta Training and Inference Accelerator (MTIA) v1. The next generation is “part of a broader full-stack development program for domain-specific, custom silicon for our unique workloads and systems,” the company said.
“This new version of MTIA more than doubles the compute and memory bandwidth of previous solutions while maintaining tight alignment with workloads,” they added. . “It is designed to efficiently deliver ranking and recommendation models that provide high-quality recommendations to users.”
The company has already deployed MTIA in its data centers and is currently delivering models in production, with results so far showing that the MTIA chip can handle both low-complexity and high-complexity ranking and recommendation models. It is said that it is shown.
“MTIA will be a key part of Meta's long-term roadmap to build and scale the most powerful and efficient infrastructure possible for its own AI workloads,” Meta added. Several programs are currently underway aimed at expanding the reach of MTIA, including support for GenAI workloads. ”
