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Blue Whale News July 30 (Reporter Zhu Junxi) is swept by the wave of AI, and giving a leather jacket has almost become the highest business social etiquette in the AI field.
On July 29, local time, Nvidia founder and CEO Huang Jensen and Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg had a public conversation on the same stage for the first time. Jen-Hsun Huang still appeared on stage wearing a leather jacket, but Zuckerberg did not wear his classic gray T-shirt, but instead put on a black T-shirt in the style of Jen-Hsun Huang. The two discussed new breakthroughs in the field of AI, including generative AI, open source technology, and the construction of virtual worlds.
Nvidia is an AI arms dealer, and technology giants like Meta are competing for its GPU chips for training and running large language models. During the nearly hour-long conversation, Zuckerberg frequently praised Jen-Hsun Huang for making his AI vision come true. When the conversation came to an end, Zuckerberg also gave Huang a black fur-collared leather jacket, and the two exchanged jackets on the spot.
During the conversation at this conference, Zuckerberg first mentioned his vision for intelligent agents. He said that although Meta launched the artificial intelligence assistant Meta AI, he did not want people to only interact with this large-scale AI. He believes that many people want to create their own intelligent agents for different purposes such as entertainment and practicality. Meta hopes to provide such a platform. "If such diversity exists, the world will become better and more interesting."
During the conversation, Meta announced the launch of AI Studio based on the llama 3.1 model. The platform allows users to create their own AI agents, which can be customized with personality, tone or interests, and used on social media such as instagram, messenger and whatsapp owned by meta.
In addition to being aimed at ordinary users or creators, Zuckerberg also introduced the use scenarios of intelligent agents in enterprises during the talk. He said that in the future, every enterprise will have an AI agent that interacts with customers and can quickly establish business agents for sales or customer support.
As large model companies begin to explore AI application scenarios, the intelligent agent track is receiving more attention. As one of the banner figures of China's AI, Robin Li, founder, chairman and CEO of Baidu, has emphasized on many occasions that Baidu believes that the simplest and most promising development direction of AI applications is intelligent agents, and there will be millions of AI applications in the future. Even larger numbers of intelligent agents appear, forming a huge ecosystem.
Returning to this conversation, Huang Renxun and Zuckerberg also talked about the controversial open-source and closed-source model disputes in the AI industry. Huang Renxun said that the release of the open source model llama 2 by meta was the biggest event in the AI field last year, activating companies in every industry and different sizes, allowing them to start building AI. Unlike
and other companies that choose closed source such as openai, meta is a firm advocate of the open source route. Last week, meta launched the latest open source large model series llama 3.1. Among them, the 405b model with the largest parameter scale scored higher than closed source models such as gpt-4o in multiple capability tests.
Zuckerberg explained during the conversation that meta chose open source not because they are "selfless altruists", but out of practical considerations. “We started building computing infrastructure and data centers after some other tech companies, so it wasn’t a competitive advantage anymore. We thought we might as well open it up and then we’d benefit from the ecosystem around it. "
's previous experience of being limited in building meta services on the Apple platform also shaped Zuckerberg's philosophical view of open source technology. He said that the first version of Facebook was released on the Internet and was open. After the transition to an era dominated by mobile devices, the most difficult thing for meta is to accept the fact that it must publish its applications through competitors' mobile platforms. Because Apple's ecosystem is relatively closed, it is difficult for meta to fully create the service form it envisions.
"Let me talk about closed platforms and I get angry." Zuckerberg said, "My hope is that in the next generation of computing, we will return to an area where open ecosystems win and lead again.""
After meta released llama 3.1, NVIDIA announced the launch of two new businesses, the AI Foundry and NIM inference microservices, which match the model. According to NVIDIA, through the AI Foundry, companies can use the LLama 3.1 model and NVIDIA software to Build and train exclusive models. Huang Renxun said that although he is a “senior citizen”, as a CEO, he can quickly jump on rapidly iterative technologies. “Now we are helping companies around the world do this. All caused by llama open source. "
Towards the end of the conversation, the two technology leaders also shared their prospects for the next wave of AI. Huang Renxun said that Nvidia is using videos to train artificial intelligence models to better understand the physical world and is betting on robots Technically. Zuckerberg said that the next generation computing platform will be broken down into mixed reality vr headsets and smart glasses.
Zuckerberg said that he hopes that smart glasses will be similar to mobile phones. It has multiple functions such as making calls, listening to music, and live broadcasting, and is expected to attract the interest of tens or even hundreds of millions of people. In the field of VR glasses, meta acquired oculus many years ago and has launched several generations of other products. According to multiple media reports in July, meta is planning to acquire 5% of the shares of Essilorluxottica, the world's largest eyewear company, to increase the development of smart glasses. Essilorluxottica owns many well-known brands such as Ray-Ban and Oakley, and will cooperate with Meta in 2021. The partnership launched the first ray ban-meta smart glasses. Other media reports said that Google is also in contact with the company’s leadership to discuss incorporating its gemini AI assistant into future smart glasses, which may heat up competition.
