Meta Developing AI Model to Compete with OpenAI’s GPT-4

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, recently unveiled its AI model Llama 2, which is built on 65 billion parameters. Meta positioned Llama 2 as a smaller foundational model that is ideal for AI research and experimentation due to its lower computing power requirements. However, a new report indicates that CEO Mark Zuckerberg is now aiming to join the major AI competition and challenge OpenAI. Meta is reportedly developing a new AI model that surpasses Llama 2 and will directly compete with OpenAI’s GPT-4, the most recent large language model.

According to a Wall Street Journal report, Meta wants its new AI model to be ready for release next year and expects to start training the AI model as soon as the first three months of 2024. Interestingly, Zuckerberg aims to make the AI model open source and thus free for companies to create AI tools, like its predecessor. Read more: 5 things you should know about Meta’s ChatGPT competitor, AI platform LLaMA

The new AI model is being built to have all the features of LLM, including sophisticated text generation, analysis, and human-like expression. According to the report, Meta has started buying larger quantities of Nvidia H100 AI training chips, the most advanced chip the company makes. The reason is believed to be that Meta wants to train the new model on its own infrastructure, unlike Llama 2, which was trained on Microsoft’s cloud computing platform Azure.

Meta competes with OpenAI with its GPT 4-like AI model

It was previously reported that Meta was building a team of AI researchers to build tools that could bring in a human experience, and now Zuckerberg is said to have accelerated the team’s activities. This team has already started building AI tools for the company due to some leaks. According to a report published by The Verge in June, Instagram worked on the chatbot with 30 different human personalities. This chatbot may be launched later this month under the name Personas, a chatbot that the company has promoted in the past. Read more: ChatGPT Enterprise launched and competes with Microsoft Bing Enterprise

Zuckerberg also attends AI-related conclaves to discuss how AI can be handled. He will attend the much-talked-about summit hosted by US Senator Chuck Schumer along with OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and other top tech leaders.