Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, is playing a massive bet holding no horses to maintain his tech supremacy in this ever-evolving era of AI as he labels his vision “Super-intelligence”.
He has announced plans to throw in hundreds of billions to build gigantic data centers to train his “super intelligent” AI models, including a “crown king” (If you may) facility, “Hyperion“ , that would consume electricity enough to run 4 million homes, roughly around 5 gigawatts. It will be the most energy-intensive computing facility ever built.
Mr. Zuckerberg is smart enough to acknowledge that it’s not only the tech but the people steering it that make a difference. Hence, in his recent hiring spree, he has invested around $14.3 billion to hire tech-big shots, including Scale AI CEO Alexander Wang, brought in former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman, and has been aggressively poaching researchers from Apple and OpenAI, according to Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal.
Previously, Meta had to shelf its LIama 4 Behemoth AI model, owing to the model’s incapacity to compete with ChatGPT and Google’s offerings. Seems like this didn’t sit well with Mr. Zuckerberg and now he’s out there to spend whatever it takes to catch up.
This approach of “super-intelligent” AI model, where AI does not only help you with what you ask, rather “sees what you see and hears what you hear” seems like Mark Zuckerberg’s moonshot to outpace Apple and Google’s app store dominance.
Going from a social media company into humanity’s gateway for an intensified AI future while competing with giants who have got the “early bird advantage” surely seems audacious but achievable given Mr. Zuckerberg’s history.
