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Meta unveils its newest custom AI chip as it races to catch up


Meta, hell-bent on catching up to rivals in the generative AI space, is spending billions on its own AI efforts. A portion of those billions is going

Meta unveiled the newest fruit of its chip dev efforts today, conspicuously a day after Intel announced its latest AI accelerator hardware. One, Meta reveals in the blog post that it’s not using the next-gen MTIA for generative AI training workloads at the moment, although the company claims it has “several programs underway” exploring this. In the blog post, Meta says it took fewer than nine months to “go from first silicon to production models” of the next-gen MTIA, which to be fair is shorter than the typical window between Google TPUs.

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