Meta's hefty investment in artificial intelligence includes development of an AI system designed to power Facebook's entire video recommendation engine across all its platforms, a company executive said Wednesday.
Tom Alison, the head of Facebook, said part of Meta's "technology roadmap that goes to 2026" involves developing an AI-recommendation model that can power both the company's TikTok-like Reels short video service and more traditional, longer videos.
To date, Meta has typically used a separate model for each of its products, like Reels, Groups and the core Facebook Feed, Alison said onstage at Morgan Stanley's tech conference in San Francisco.
As part of Meta's ambitious foray into AI, the company has been spending billions of dollars on Nvidia graphics processing units, or GPUs.
They've become the primary chips used by AI researchers for training the types of large language models (LLMs) used to power OpenAI's popular ChatGPT chatbot and other generative AI models.
Persons:
Tom Alison, Alison, Morgan Stanley's, They've, Meta
Organizations:
Facebook, Meta
Locations:
San Francisco, LLMs