Meta is reportedly testing in-house chips for AI training

Group 1 - Meta is testing an in-house chip for training AI systems to reduce reliance on hardware makers like Nvidia [1] - The chip is designed for AI-specific workloads and was manufactured in partnership with TSMC, with a small deployment currently being piloted [1] - If successful, Meta plans to scale up production of the chip [1] Group 2 - Meta has previously deployed custom AI chips, but only for running models, not for training [2] - Several of Meta's chip design efforts have been canceled or scaled back due to not meeting internal expectations [2] - The company expects to spend $65 billion on capital expenditure this year, primarily on Nvidia GPUs, and reducing costs by shifting to in-house chips would be significant [2]