Meta acknowledges that it was late to AI and ensures that it maintains the investment in the metaverse

27 Apr. (Portaltic/EP) –

Goal acknowledges that it was late in developing its own artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure, but ensures that it has not only caught up but will launch new products with this technology by the end of the year, as well as the next generation of its AI viewer. virtual reality, the base of the metaverse in which he continues to invest and work.

goal has increased funding to develop generative artificial intelligence initiativesas confirmed in the presentation of the financial results corresponding to the first quarter of 2023.

Executive Director, mark zuckerberghas discussed the issue of artificial intelligence in the call with investors, in which he has explained that they are currently focused on two areas: the use of this technology for the recommendation and classification systems of services such as Facebook and Instagram, and the development of new models of generative foundations.

These new models are at the base of “new classes of products and experiences”, one of them being AI Agents, that they hope to present billions of people “in ways that are useful and meaningful,” for example, in business messaging and customer service.

Ultimately, the manager hopes to extend this work to the metaverse, “where people will be able to create avatars, objects, worlds, and codes much more easily.”

goal has your own large language modelwhich he has named Calls, with 65 billion parameters, which is already available to researchers. They have also provided three open source visual models and, along with their training data, the DinoV2 visual computing model and a tool to animate drawings.

The main investment, however, has been in AI infrastructure and capital expenditures. In this regard, the manager has acknowledged that they started late with the development of their own structure, but has pointed out that they are no longer behind schedule and that, even now, they have “the ability to do leading work in this space at scale”.

Zuckerberg maintains the intention to continue investing in this area and has even anticipated the launch of new products at the end of the year.

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the metaverse has been the engine of Meta in recent years, to the point that it led to a restructuring of the company at the end of 2021. The manager has made it clear that they have not strayed from the vision of building the metaverse, and that they continue to invest in it as in artificial intelligence.

“Build the metaverse It is a long-term project, but the raison d’être remains the same and we remain committed to it.l”, he assured in his speech.

On the one hand, Zuckerberg has referred to the advances in hardware, which have allowed the launch of the independent helmet with mixed reality. He has also commented on the vision they have in the company with the augmented reality glasses, which will have an operating system focused on artificial intelligence and which will allow the implementation of AI agents, taking advantage of the developments made in the avatars.

He has also highlighted some figures: daily active users of Quest headsets already spend more than an hour using this device, more than one billion Meta avvatars have been created and the Wuest Store has doubled the number of titles since the year past.

Now the company focuses on the launch of the “next generation” of its commercial viewer of virtual and mixed reality, which will take place at the end of the year, and which will also do so at a price that will be “accessible to many people”.