Alert, Mark Zuckerberg and Meta currently pay one billion to expand their artificial intelligence (AI) and replace in the race, a strategy that makes skeptics.
In mid -June, the Empire of American social networks did not hesitate to set aside more than $ 14 billion to acquire 49% of the Capital of the scale, specialized in the use of data used to develop AI models.
The Menlo Park (California) group had previously approached, according to several US media, the co -founder of Operai Ilya Sutskever, but also the perplexity, the self -proclaimed rival of Google or the jewel of AI, the track.
Recruitment of employees with competition
According to the head of Operai, Sam Altman offered an individual bonus for the signing of more than $ 100 million to “many” operai employees and approximately the same annual salary amount. Four of them ended up falling, like the director general of AI of scale, Alexandr Wang.
In an internal letter, transmitted by the site with cable, Operai’s research manager, Mark Chen, said he had the impression that “someone had introduced (he) and (he had) stolen something.” He assured that the Chatgpt creator was revaluing wages to counteract the offensive goal and even hoped to retain the headlines.
According to several media, it was CEO Mark Zuckerberg himself who touched the position, concerned with seeing a goal in the generative AI, despite the investments of several tens of billions. His last great AI model calls 4, was launched in early April, disappointed.
It arrives behind all heavy, American, Chinese and French weights, in the classification established by the Independent Evaluation Platform Lmarena on the writing of code, and even behind its predecessor calls 3 for the text interface.
Superintendent
Meta wants to integrate its new recruits into a new team dedicated to the development of “superintelligence”, which corresponds to an AI superior to the human capacities of understanding and reflection.
“I think it will succeed in attracting real talents, and had no choice,” says the blogger Zvi Mowshowitz at AFP, “but this side of the mercenaries is very problematic, not to mention that nobody wants to work”, apart from a very high remuneration, “for this company and these products.”
“Suddenly, I don’t hope it works,” he says, that is, the goal takes his hand in ia. In Wall Street, if the title approach approaches its historical summit and capitalization of $ 2,000 billion, the teeth begin to shrink.
“Institutional investors are mostly concerned about liquidity” that the company (Cash Fluid) launches “and good capital management,” describes Ted Mortonson, Baird analyst. “And at this time, there is no counterweight” in Mark Zuckerberg.
“Those who have actions keep them for AI advertising, in which goal is extremely well positioned,” he said. “But they are also worried about seeing these expenses without control.”
Monetize ai
During an interview for the Podcast Stratechery, Mark Zuckerberg explained that his group would soon offer an advertising creation solution key directly to advertisers and, therefore, would create a new source of income.
“This does not change the potential for short -term profitability,” he considers, for his part, Angelo Zino, an analyst, who also says that he trusts a more distant horizon, “because he will create more opportunities, ways to monetize AI, either through advertising, connected devices (glasses and helmets) or even call.”
According to the New York Times, Mark Zuckerberg, however, plans not to make the flame the flagship of AI in goal, even if that means using competing models.
Mehmet Canayaz, professor at Penn State University, emphasizes that the generative AI currently enters a new phase, that of digital agents, smaller models capable of performing a multitude of tasks independently.
As for the “Superintelligence”, or General AI, the second match the man and the first one that goes beyond him, “we will still have to wait at least three to five years,” says Angelo Zino. “But you have to recruit these people and invest greatly to be ready when you go to this phase.”
Source: BFM TV
