Mark Zuckerberg is set for a packed week in Asia, with stops in Japan, South Korea and India to work on artificial intelligence and forge connections with business and government leaders in the region.
The CEO of Meta Platforms Inc., who was in Japan last week to accompany his family on a ski trip, will meet with his company’s developers in Tokyo on Monday and Tuesday, according to a spokeswoman. They will discuss the company’s Quest virtual reality headset and its large language model Llama, one of its efforts to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
On Wednesday, Zuckerberg plans to travel to Seoul to meet with partners, the spokeswoman said, declining to elaborate. He is tentatively scheduled to meet with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, according to a person familiar with the matter, who asked not to be named because the details are private. He will also meet the president of Samsung Electronics Co. Jay Y. Lee to discuss cooperation in AI and the CEO of LG Electronics Inc. to talk about joint development of an extended reality headset, according to local media.
“Mark is in Japan on a personal trip and will also meet with a number of key partners while he is here,” the spokesperson said. “As reported, Mark plans to visit Korea briefly for some key partner meetings.”
Samsung officials declined to comment. LG Electronics officials were not immediately available 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 after Zuckerberg visited Seoul in 2013 and 2014, when he met Lee and toured Samsung’s key factories.
Zuckerberg returns to Seoul as Meta races to compete in AI with powerful rivals OpenAI and Microsoft Corp. to Alphabet Inc. In an Instagram Reels post last month, Zuckerberg said the company’s future roadmap for AI calls for it to build “massive computing.” infrastructure.” By the end of 2024, he said that infrastructure will include 350,000 H100 chips from Nvidia Corp.
Zuckerberg and others have spoken of aspirations to build artificial general intelligence, or AI as intelligent as the average human, despite concerns about AGI’s future dangers to humanity. Samsung, for its part, has reportedly set up a new semiconductor R&D unit called “AGI Computing Lab” in Silicon Valley to develop the next generation of chips.
After Seoul, Zuckerberg plans to travel to Jamnagar, Gujarat in western India to attend the pre-wedding celebrations of billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s youngest son, Anant Ambani. The three-day festivities, which will begin on March 1, will attract celebrities in business, technology and entertainment.
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Published: 26 Feb 2024, 07:19 IST
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