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According to Business Insider, Twitter has made a substantial investment into hardware upgrades at its North American datacenter operation. The company has purchased somewhere in the region of 10,000 GPUs - destined for the social media giant's two remaining datacenter locations. Insider sources claim that Elon Musk has committed to a large language model (LLM) project, in an effort to rival OpenAI's ChatGPT system. The GPUs will not provide much computational value in the current/normal day-to-day tasks at Twitter - the source reckons that the extra processing power will be utilized for deep learning purposes.
Twitter has not revealed any concrete plans for its relatively new in-house artificial intelligence project but something was afoot when, earlier this year, Musk recruited several research personnel from Alphabet's DeepMind division. It was theorized that he was incubating a resident AI research lab at the time, following personal criticisms levelled at his former colleagues at OpenAI, ergo their very popular and much adopted chatbot.
The leak of information has not pointed to an exact GPU type, specification or manufacturer. The datacenter-grade cards are speculated to boost Twitter's search functionality via generative AI. The reconstruction of the platform's advertising arm is another area of interest for AI-assisted systems - automation of user targeted material being a distinct possibility. Twitter holds a vast volume of user data, so the new units will have plenty of material to chew through.
Industry experts have been left slightly puzzled by this sudden upshift in Twitter's AI operations, even at such a juvenile stage in development - given Musk's highly publicized criticisms have stretched beyond the scope of OpenAI's goals. He has called (alongside other critics) for the AI industry, as a whole entity, to pause experiments for a six month long period. Calls of hypocrisy, self interest and inconsistencies have been made - so just another normal day at the office for Musk and Twitter.
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Twitter has not revealed any concrete plans for its relatively new in-house artificial intelligence project but something was afoot when, earlier this year, Musk recruited several research personnel from Alphabet's DeepMind division. It was theorized that he was incubating a resident AI research lab at the time, following personal criticisms levelled at his former colleagues at OpenAI, ergo their very popular and much adopted chatbot.
The leak of information has not pointed to an exact GPU type, specification or manufacturer. The datacenter-grade cards are speculated to boost Twitter's search functionality via generative AI. The reconstruction of the platform's advertising arm is another area of interest for AI-assisted systems - automation of user targeted material being a distinct possibility. Twitter holds a vast volume of user data, so the new units will have plenty of material to chew through.
Industry experts have been left slightly puzzled by this sudden upshift in Twitter's AI operations, even at such a juvenile stage in development - given Musk's highly publicized criticisms have stretched beyond the scope of OpenAI's goals. He has called (alongside other critics) for the AI industry, as a whole entity, to pause experiments for a six month long period. Calls of hypocrisy, self interest and inconsistencies have been made - so just another normal day at the office for Musk and Twitter.
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