VentureBeat January 24, 2022
Kolawole Samuel Adebayo

Following Meta’s (formerly Facebook) October announcement that it’s pushing to stake its claim on the metaverse, the company today announced that it has developed the AI Research SuperCluster (RSC), which it claims is among the fastest AI supercomputers running today. Once it is fully built, Meta says it will be the fastest operating supercomputer — the company is aiming to complete it by the middle of this year.

CEO Mark Zuckerberg noted that the experiences the company is building for the metaverse require enormous compute power — reaching into quintillions of operations per second. The RSC will enable new AI models to learn from trillions of examples, understand hundreds of languages, and more.

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