Meta to Invest Heavily in AI, Plans to Purchase 350,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs

Mark Zuckerberg's vision for AI includes building a complete artificial general intelligence, open-sourcing it responsibly, and making it widely available.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced plans to invest heavily in Nvidia hardware and other AI initiatives, aiming to build a complete artificial general intelligence (AGI) capable of providing reasoning, planning, coding, and other abilities to users around the world.
Meta intends to purchase around 350,000 Nvidia H100 units, or approximately 600,000 H100 equivalents when including other planned GPU purchases, to support its AI efforts.
Zuckerberg highlighted Meta's long-term vision is to build AI, open-source it responsibly and make it widely available so everyone can benefit.
Zuckerberg also noted that the company is currently training its next-gen model Llama 3 and is excited about progress in building new AI-centric computing devices like Ray Ban Meta smart glasses.
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, responded to Meta's plans with a bemused 'Not clear,' when asked about the company's intentions for such a large number of GPUs.