AI’s future could be in Australia — but one key breakthrough is needed, says Meta VP
US tech giants are scrambling to find energy to fuel AI development in the US. That demand will spread around the world, says Meta artificial intelligence VP Manohar Paluri.
The head of Meta’s Llama AI division says artificial intelligence development will spread beyond the US to countries like Australia — but a key technological breakthrough is needed first.
While America’s data centre industry is booming due to demand for power and processors to develop AI, it has been unclear whether this activity would expand beyond US shores. Manohar Paluri, VP of AI at Meta, believes it will.
“The fundamental reason for that is the limitation of power,” Paluri told Capital Brief in an interview. “In a particular region, you will have only so much power, even if you have the real estate, so the power constraints of the world will mean [decentralisation].”
Paluri expects this to change once companies like Meta and its peers figure out how to achieve “asynchronous” AI training, which he describes as a “research breakthrough".
