Meta inks deal to use more Amazon chips
TLDR
- Meta will use tens of millions of Amazon Graviton cores to power its next-generation AI models.
Key Facts
- Meta and Amazon announced a deal for Amazon to initially supply Meta with tens of millions of Graviton cores.
- The deal expands an existing AWS-Meta partnership and would make Meta one of Graviton’s largest customers.
- The companies say agentic AI is driving CPU-intensive workloads like real-time reasoning, code generation, and multi-step task orchestration.
- Google also announced its eighth-generation TPUs on Wednesday, with separate versions for training and inference.
Why It Matters
- Cloud providers are pushing homegrown chips as an alternative amid an industrywide shortage of Nvidia graphics chips.
- The shift signals growing demand for CPU-based infrastructure alongside GPUs as AI workloads diversify.
Ina Fried / Axios · 2026-04-24 · Read the original