Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) announced details about its next-generation in-house artificial intelligence accelerator chip on Wednesday.
The social media giant said its next generation of large-scale infrastructure is being built with AI in mind, including supporting new generative AI products, recommendation systems and advanced AI research.
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Last year, Meta Platforms unveiled its Meta Training and Inference Accelerator (MTIA) v1. The next generation "is part of our broader full-stack development program for custom, domain-specific silicon that addresses our unique workloads and systems," stated the company.
"This new version of MTIA more than doubles the compute and memory bandwidth of our previous solution while maintaining our close tie-in to our workloads," they added. "It is designed to efficiently serve the ranking and recommendation models that provide high-quality recommendations to users."
The company has already deployed MTIA in its data centers and is now serving models in production, with the results said to be so far showing that the MTIA chip can handle both low-complexity and high-complexity ranking and recommendation models.
"MTIA will be an important piece of our long-term roadmap to build and scale the most powerful and efficient infrastructure possible for Meta's unique AI workloads," added Meta. We currently have several programs underway aimed at expanding the scope of MTIA, including support for GenAI workloads."