Mark Zuckerberg and Jensen Huang, the CEOs of Meta and Nvidia, respectively, chatted about AI at a computer graphics conference on Monday. The friendly conversation revealed little but disgusted some.
The chat was full of praise. For instance, Huang happily disclosed the fact that Meta now had about 600,000 Nvidia graphics processor units (GPUs) installed across its servers in data centers.
“The thing that is incredible – these systems you guys build, giant systems, incredibly hard to run – you said you got into the GPU journey later than most, but you are operating larger than just about everybody,” Huang said to Zuckerberg.
Meta’s boss just as giddily agreed and said, “We are good customers. That’s how you get the Jensen Q&A at SIGGRAPH.” SIGGRAPH is the name of the conference that took place in Denver.
Indeed, Meta raised its capital-expenditures plan in April, saying it would spend between $35 billion to $40 billion on AI research, data centers, and other infrastructure costs. That’s a jump from a previous forecast of $30 billion to $37 billion.
The company seems ready to spend heavily even though Yahoo Finance just reported that Meta’s Reality Labs division has burned nearly $50 billion in just over four years. So much the year of efficiency.
In fact, Zuck seemed so excited during his chat with Huang that he even dropped the F-bomb talking about the open-source AI approach, seemingly favored at Meta.
“There have just been too many things I've tried to build and told 'nah, you can't really build that' by the platform provider, that at some level I'm just like, 'Nah, f**k that.'” Zuckerberg said. “For the next generation, we're going to build all the way down.”
By the end of the conversation, Huang and Zuckerberg were swapping custom-made jackets like pure tech bros. Huang gave Zuckerberg a new leather jacket just given to him by his wife Lori while Zuckerberg brought out a sherpa-lined black leather jacket for Huang.
On social media, though, some users weren’t happy with Zuckerberg’s ideas about how both consumers and businesses will soon be able to create individual AI agents for special purposes.
On Monday, Meta said it will soon roll out a new tool called AI Studio that will allow users to create, share, and design personalized AI chatbots. The new tool is built with Meta’s Llama 3.1, the biggest version of its mostly free AI models released last week.
I really didn’t know how you could make AI any more inhuman
undefined Brad Lynch (@SadlyItsBradley) July 29, 2024
But then Zuckerberg started talking out loud (honestly) about how social media feeds will become full of automated personalities and content tailored for each person
Disgusting. It’s already bad enough
“I really didn’t know how you could make AI any more inhuman. But then Zuckerberg started talking out loud (honestly) about how social media feeds will become full of automated personalities and content tailored for each person. Disgusting,” wrote Brad Lynch, an XR hardware analyst.
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