There is a lot of debate about whether Meta will crack the metaverse. The gaming companies have a head start because gamers have embraced the virtual world already. Meta is going full steam ahead and has indicated that it will invest $10 billion a year to create virtual worlds for their social media users.
In January, they started working on an AI supercomputer that is due to be finished soon. I was very interested to see that the first phase of the development runs on a server system using 760 Nvidia GGX A100 chips with 6 080 connected GPUs. The second phase will contain 16 000 GPUs. Meta has become a huge Nvidia client.
It won't just be the metaverse where this supercomputer will be utilised. It will give Meta huge processing power for their existing businesses.