Mark Zuckerberg is ready for an eventful week in Asia, with stops in Japan, South Korea and India to work on artificial intelligence services and build relationships with business and government leaders in the region. There is.
Metaplatforms’ CEO was in Japan last week to accompany his family on a ski trip and is scheduled to meet with the company’s developers in Tokyo on Monday and Tuesday, a spokesperson said. They discuss the company’s Quest virtual reality headset and the large-scale language model Llama, one of his efforts to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
Mr. Zuckerberg will travel to Seoul on Wednesday to meet with partners, a spokesperson said, without providing further details. He is tentatively scheduled to meet with South Korean President Yun Seok-yew, said a person familiar with the matter, who requested anonymity because the details are private.
According to local media reports, he will also meet with Samsung Electronics Chairman Jay Y. Lee to discuss cooperation in the field of AI, and also meet with LG Electronics CEO to discuss joint development of an augmented reality headset. It’s planned.
A spokesperson said: “Mark is in Japan on a personal trip and will also meet with several key partners during his visit.” “As reported, Mark is scheduled to make a short visit to South Korea for meetings with several important partners.”
Samsung officials declined to comment. LG Electronics officials could not be reached for comment.
Meta and Samsung have collaborated on virtual reality headsets in the past, with Zuckerberg appearing as a special guest at the Korean company’s Unpacked event in 2016 to talk about Gear VR. The partnership came about after Zuckerberg visited Seoul in 2013 and 2014, met with Lee and toured Samsung’s main factories.
Zuckerberg returns to Seoul as Meta competes in the AI space with open AI and strong competitors ranging from Microsoft to Alphabet. Instagram reel Zuckerberg said in a post last month that the company’s future roadmap for AI calls for building “massive computing infrastructure.” He said the infrastructure will be equipped with 350,000 Nvidia Corp. H100 chips by the end of 2024.
Zuckerberg and others have talked about their desire to build artificial general intelligence, or AI that is as smart as the average human, despite concerns about the future dangers of AGI to humanity. Samsung has reportedly established a new semiconductor research and development department in Silicon Valley called the AGI Computing Lab to develop next-generation chips.
After Seoul, Zuckerberg will head to Jamnagar in the western Indian state of Gujarat to attend the pre-wedding festivities of Anant Ambani, the youngest son of billionaire Mukesh Ambani. His three-day festival, which begins March 1, will attract some of the biggest names in business, technology and entertainment.
(issued February 26, 2024, 03:43 IST)