Meta wants to dethrone ChatGPT and create its own chatbot based on a language model more powerful than GPT-4. As revealed The Wall Street Journal, the company plans to start training this AI in early 2024 with the goal of launching a free alternative to OpenAI. This, however, is something that has no special meaning.
Currently, and as stated in the aforementioned medium, Meta gets Nvidia chips intended for artificial intelligence tasks. In particular, the Nvidia H100 GPUs, which will be used to train the model, aim to outperform GPT-4. The Mark Zuckerberg-led company will also not depend on Azure, Microsoft’s cloud computing services, to work on its AI. However, they chose to strengthen their infrastructure and created a new team dedicated to it at the beginning of this year.
Currently, there are no more details about the Meta AI model that aims to surpass GPT-4, from OpenAI. The company, however, has been working on new artificial intelligence products for months after the popularity of ChatGPT, and Microsoft has also jumped on the bandwagon with the Bing chatbot and AI-powered search.
The Meta, yes, is working on something that doesn’t make much sense. According to reports, we repeat, the company plans to train its language model in early 2024. And although a few months ago Sam Altan, CEO of OpenAI, detailed that the company is not training GPT-5, and that it will not be done “for a while”, early next year would be an ideal start date. working on a new version of powerful AI. This leaves Meta even in second place, although its chatbot is more powerful than GPT-4.
Furthermore, Meta is not the only company working on new AI products. New reports reveal that Apple invests millions of dollars every day in artificial intelligence, and more specifically, a chatbot more powerful than ChatGPT. The Cupertino company named it internally as Ajax GPT, and it was trained on more than 200 billion parameters, making it an alternative to the OpenAI chatbot.
Currently, however, Apple’s product is only available to a limited number of employees. It also doesn’t look like the company will be announcing an alternative to ChatGPT anytime soon. Meta, however, plans to make its chatbot more powerful than GPT-4 available for free to all.
