Meta Commits to Building Open Source Artificial General Intelligence
Mark Zuckerberg announces Meta is developing open source AGI by merging its FAIR and GenAI research teams. The company also reveals massive compute infrastructure upgrades and highlights smart glasses as the ideal AI device.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announces that the company is developing open source artificial general intelligence. He reveals that Meta is merging its FAIR and GenAI research teams to build full general intelligence and share it responsibly with the world. Zuckerberg states this broad AI is necessary to power the next generation of AI assistants, creator tools, and business applications.
To support this ambitious goal, Meta is currently training its upcoming Llama 3 model and building massive compute infrastructure. The company plans to amass 350,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs by the end of the year. Zuckerberg also connects this AI push to the metaverse, pointing to Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses as the ideal form factor for people to interact constantly with AI assistants.
This announcement follows recent AGI discussions by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman at Davos and directly contrasts with the skepticism of Meta's own chief scientist, Yann LeCun. The commitment to open sourcing AGI sparks further debate in the tech community about open versus closed AI models, arriving just months after concerns about potential destructive "sleeper agents" in open source systems.