(ANSA) - Rome, August 29 - Facebook communities in Italy and
the world are united in wanting to help Italy after last week's
devastating earthquake, FB founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said
after meeting Premier Matteo Renzi in his office in Rome Monday.
Zuckerberg said in a FB post that "this afternoon (my wife)
Priscilla (Chan) and I sat down with Italian Prime Minister
Matteo Renzi. We talked about last week's earthquake and how the
Facebook community in Italy and around the world has come
together to help people recover and rebuild.
"We also talked about how technology is helping create jobs
and grow the Italian economy. I told the Prime Minister I'm
especially excited with the work being done across Europe on
artificial intelligence. As part of the Facebook AI Research
Partnership Program, we're providing 26 state-of-the-art GPU
servers to research institutions across Europe - including one
to the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia here in Italy.
They've got a great artificial intelligence and computer vision
program, and this new technology will hopefully help students
and the faculty do even more."
Zuckerberg posted a photo of he and Renzi holding a photo
of "a real server from Facebook's data center that is symbolic
of the servers for artificial intelligence that we're giving to
help research throughout Europe".
Facebook communities united on quake
FB founder, PM also talk how tech helping Italy grow