Meta Becomes One of Largest Customers of Amazon AI Chips
Meta Becomes One of Largest Customers of Amazon AI Chips
Publish Date: 2026-04-24 11:26:00
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- Meta has signed an agreement to become one of the world’s largest customers of AWS Graviton cores, aimed at enhancing its artificial intelligence capabilities.
- The partnership with AWS will incorporate tens of millions of Graviton cores into Meta’s computing environment, with the potential to expand further.
- This strategic move is part of Meta’s effort to diversify its compute sources to better handle the demands of its AI systems.
- The collaboration reflects AWS’s contribution to Meta’s long-term goals in enhancing AI infrastructure, utilizing Amazon Bedrock for scalable generative AI applications and agents.
- Meta’s AI infrastructure investment is significant, with plans to spend between $115 billion and $135 billion this year on data centers, chips, and other AI-related infrastructure.
- Amazon CEO Andy Jassy mentioned that the chips business, including Graviton chips, is expanding rapidly, with an annual revenue run rate exceeding $20 billion and projected to be much larger if sold exclusively to third parties.
