Meta headquarters in Menlo Park, CA, USA, Thursday, July 21, 2022.
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Meta Platforms Inc. has hired an Oslo-based team that until late last year was building artificial intelligence network technology at British chip unicorn Graphcore.
After Reuters identified 10 people who said on their LinkedIn profiles that they worked at Graphcore until December 2022 or January 2023 and then joined Meta in February or March of this year, a Meta spokesperson said: Hiring confirmed at request for comment.
“We recently welcomed a number of highly specialized engineers from Oslo to Meta’s infrastructure team. brings deep expertise to the design and development of ,” said Jon Carvill. Meta spokesperson.
The move is racing to meet the demand for AI-oriented infrastructure from teams across the company looking to build new capabilities, so social media critics say it will improve how data centers handle the work of AI. brings even more power to the giant’s bid.
Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, increasingly relies on AI technology to target ads, select posts to app feeds, and remove banned content from its platforms.
In addition, it joins competitors such as Microsoft Corp and Alphabet Inc’s Google in rushing to release generative AI products that can create human-like writing, art, and other content. Investors see it as the next big growth area for technology companies.
Ten employee job descriptions posted on LinkedIn showed the team worked on AI-specific network technologies at Graphcore, which develops computer chips and systems optimized for AI work.
Carvill declined to disclose what he is working on with Meta.
Graphcore closed its Oslo office as part of a broader restructuring announced last October, a company spokesperson said. This is because he, who dominates the market for AI chips, has struggled to make inroads into US-based companies such as Nvidia Corp and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. .
