Meta is building its first custom chip specifically for running AI models, the company announced recently. As Meta increases its AI efforts – CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company sees “an opportunity to introduce AI agents to billions of people in ways that will be useful and meaningful” – the chip and other infrastructure plans revealed that it could be critical tools for Meta to compete with other tech giants also investing significant resources into AI. Meta’s new MTIA chip, which stands for Meta Training and Inference Accelerator, is its “in-house, custom accelerator chip family targeting inference workloads,” Meta VP wrote in a blog post. The chip apparently provides “greater compute power and efficiency” than CPUs and is “customised for our internal workloads.” With a combination of MTIA chips and GPUs, Meta VP said that Meta believes “we’ll deliver better performance, decreased latency, and greater efficiency for each workload.” The MTIA could be a big boon for Meta, especially given increasingly high demand for AI compute power. But the MTIA chip is seemingly a long way away: it’s not set to come out until 2025, TechCrunch reports.

GOOGLE MIGHT DELETE YOUR GMAIL ACCOUNT IF YOU HAVEN’T LOGGED IN FOR TWO YEARS

Do you have any old Google accounts you haven’t used in a while? You might want to log in and take a look around once every 24 months or so, as Google has announced an update to its policies for inactive accounts. The old policy, laid out in 2020 at the same time it ended free unlimited storage for Google Photos, said that Google might wipe data stored in accounts that haven’t been touched for at least two years, but a blog post written by product manager Ruth Kricheli says that, now, those accounts could be deleted entirely. The new policy won’t kick in until December of this year at the earliest, so you have some time to remember old login information or for us to get more details on how all of this will work. 9to5Google reports that the deleted Gmail addresses will not be made available for reuse. Google has also updated the blog post announcing its new policy to reflect that, saying, “we do not have plans to delete accounts with YouTube videos at this time.”