Meta wants to dethrone ChatGPT and develop its own chatbot based on it a language model that is more powerful than GPT-4. As revealed The Wall Street JournalThe company plans to start training this AI in early 2024, with the goal of launching a free alternative to OpenAI. However, it’s something that doesn’t make any particular sense.
At the moment and as stated in the above medium, Meta has acquired Nvidia chips intended for artificial intelligence tasks. Specifically, Nvidia H100 GPUs used to train the model, which is designed to outperform GPT-4. The Mark Zuckerberg-led company also won’t rely on Azure, Microsoft’s cloud computing services, to work on its AI. Instead, they chose to strengthen their infrastructure and earlier this year created a new team dedicated to this task.
There are currently no further details about OpenAI’s meta-AI model, which is intended to outperform GPT-4. However, following the popularity of ChatGPT, the company has been working on new artificial intelligence products for months, and Microsoft has also jumped on the bandwagon with the Bing chatbot and its AI-powered search.
Yes, Meta is working on something that doesn’t make much sense. According to reports, we are repeating the company plans to train its language model in early 2024. And although OpenAI CEO Sam Altan detailed a few months ago that the company isn’t training GPT-5 and won’t be able to do so “for a while,” early next year could be an ideal start date to start working on the new version of its powerful AI. This would at least keep Meta in second place, even if its chatbot is more powerful than GPT-4.
Additionally, Meta is not the only company working on new AI products. This is what current reports have shown Apple invests millions of dollars in artificial intelligence every day, and more specifically, in a chatbot that is more powerful than ChatGPT. The Cupertino company has internally called it Ajax GPT and it has been trained on more than 200 billion parameters, making it an alternative to the OpenAI chatbot.
However, the Apple product is currently only available to a limited number of employees. It also doesn’t look like the company will be announcing an alternative to ChatGPT any time soon. Instead, Meta plans to make its chatbot, which is more powerful than GPT-4, available to everyone for free.
