Facebook owner Meta is testing its first in-house chip for training artificial intelligence systems, a key milestone as it moves to design more of its own custom silicon and reduce reliance on external suppliers like Nvidia ,

Meta is evaluating its AI training accelerator, which could reduce its reliance on Nvidia's AI GPUs for training.

Meta's new training chip is a dedicated accelerator, which means that it is designed to carry out only AI-specific tasks. This could make it more power-efficient than the integrated graphics processing units, or GPUs, generally used for AI workload, the report noted.