Benzinga | Jan 24, 2022 01:05PM EST

Meta Launches Next-Gen AI Supercomputer: All You Need To Know

* Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:FB) touts its AI Research SuperCluster (RSC), among the fastest AI supercomputers running today and will be the fastest in the world once fully built out in mid-2022.

* Several hundred people, including researchers from partners NVIDIA Corp (NASDAQ:NVDA), Penguin Computing Inc, and Pure Storage Inc (NYSE:PSTG), were involved in the two-year project, the Wall Street Journal reports.

* AI can currently perform tasks like translating text between languages and helping identify potentially harmful content.

* However, developing the next generation of AI will require powerful supercomputers capable of quintillions of operations per second.

* RSC will help Meta's AI researchers build better AI models that can learn from trillions of examples, paving the way toward building technologies for the metaverse, where AI-driven applications and products will play an important role.

* Price Action: FB shares traded lower by 2.8% at $294.71 on the last check Monday.