Meta is building Its First In-House Training Chip

Plus: OpenAI's business bots

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Amandeep Singh
March 12, 2025

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Here is what we have Today:

  • 🎰 Meta vs Nvidia: "We'll build our own chips with blackjack and AI!"

  • 🤖 GSA Chatbot rolls out to thousands of federal employees.

  • 🗣️ Sonic 2.0 only needs seconds to steal your voice.

  • 🤖 OpenAI's enterprise bots handle web tasks while you pretend to work.

  • 💼 New Job Opportunities

Meta

Meta is making a bold move to take control of its AI future. The company has officially started testing its first in-house AI training chip, aiming to cut costs and reduce reliance on Nvidia.

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The Details:

🔹 Built by TSMC: Meta’s chip is part of the MTIA series, designed specifically for AI training and inference.
🔹 Major Milestone: The test follows a successful "tape-out," proving the chip can be manufactured at scale.
🔹 Proven Track Record: Meta already uses custom chips for Facebook and Instagram’s recommendation engines and plans to expand to generative AI.
🔹 Mass Deployment by 2026: If successful, the chip could save Meta billions on its $65B AI infrastructure spend.

Why It Matters:

AI infrastructure is getting insanely expensive. To stay ahead, tech giants are racing to build their own chips instead of depending on Nvidia. Meta now joins OpenAI, Amazon, and ByteDance in the silicon arms race, reshaping the future of AI.

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OpenAI

AI agents are stepping out of the lab and into the real world—now, businesses can build their own.

OpenAI just dropped a new set of tools, empowering companies to create custom AI agents for tasks like web searching, file management, and enterprise automation.

Image Source: OpenAI

What’s new?

  • OpenAI's new Responses API merges web search, file scanning, and computer interaction—replacing the older Assistants API, which phases out in 2026.

  • Companies can now build AI agents using the same tech that powers Operator, OpenAI’s in-house autonomous assistant.

  • A new open-source Agents SDK helps developers manage multi-agent systems while providing built-in safety and monitoring tools.

  • Early adopters include Stripe (AI invoicing assistant) and Box (AI-powered enterprise search).

Why does it matter?
2025 is shaping up to be the year of AI agents, with OpenAI stepping in to turn hype into real-world impact. While companies like China’s Manus have been making waves, most AI agents have struggled to move beyond flashy demos. OpenAI’s latest tools could be the missing link, bringing practical AI automation into everyday business operations.

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  • Disappearing plastic is a biodegradable plastic made like polylatic acid or other materials made to break down naturally in the environment.

  • The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and President Trump have accelerated efforts to shrink and overhaul the civil service by deploying generative AI tools. At the General Services Administration (GSA), a new chatbot called “GSA Chat” (originally “GSAi”) is being tested by 1,500 employees and may soon be released to more than 10,000 workers. Developed by a small technology team called 10x.

  • Cartesia just unveiled a new voice foundation model called Sonic 2.0 that can capture the essence of your voice, including accents and other nuances, with only a few seconds of audio. A Turbo version has just 40ms of latency and is especially good at pronouncing things like addresses and names, with human testers preferring it 1.5x over the competition.

  • Adobe unveiled a new feature called Customize that lets users tweak any stock image, or multiple images at once. You can edit the aspect ratio, change the style, or remove the background to match your needs.

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