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Mark Zuckerberg indicates Meta is spending billions of dollars on Nvidia AI chips (www.cnbc.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Summary: Meta, led by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, is investing billions in Nvidia's H100 graphics cards to build a massive compute infrastructure for AI research and projects. By end of 2024, Meta aims to have 350,000 of these GPUs, with total expenditures potentially reaching $9 billion. This move is part of Meta's focus on developing artificial general intelligence (AGI), competing with firms like OpenAI and Google's DeepMind. The company's AI and computing investments are a key part of its 2024 budget, emphasizing AI as their largest investment area.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Chips evolve. By the time a billion dollar contract is fulfilled, they are two iterations behind.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Pretty sure they'll be given insight into the roadmap for that price, and be able to place speculative orders on upcoming generations.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I used to present those roadmaps. They change too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Of course they do, but my point was that I doubt Meta is locked into this generation.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The article says "by the end. Of the year" they will spend billions

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

"spend billions" does not equal "hand over cash and take home GPUs". It'll mean a contract worth that amount with delivery terms defined over time. Even over the course of a year there's likely to be newer product than Lovelace.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

When you get product you pay for it. Spending means paying for it. You may have a contract for future product, but you don't pay for the future product in advance as SOX rules kick in. Commonly, a chip development cycle can be at least 10 months.