Meta appears poised to spend billions of dollars by the end of this year on Nvidia's popular computer chips that are widely used for AI projects

Summary: Meta, led by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, is investing billions in Nvidia’s H100 graphics cards to build a massive compute infrastructure for AI research and projects. By end of 2024, Meta aims to have 350,000 of these GPUs, with total expenditures potentially reaching $9 billion. This move is part of Meta’s focus on developing artificial general intelligence (AGI), competing with firms like OpenAI and Google’s DeepMind. The company’s AI and computing investments are a key part of its 2024 budget, emphasizing AI as their largest investment area.

    • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Pretty sure they’ll be given insight into the roadmap for that price, and be able to place speculative orders on upcoming generations.

        • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
          21·
          10 months ago

          Of course they do, but my point was that I doubt Meta is locked into this generation.

            • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
              11·
              10 months ago

              “spend billions” does not equal “hand over cash and take home GPUs”. It’ll mean a contract worth that amount with delivery terms defined over time. Even over the course of a year there’s likely to be newer product than Lovelace.