Meta seems to be making big bets on AI-powered hardware.

Meta seems to be making big bets on AI-powered hardware.

Meta plans to start manufacturing an AI chip from September as part of its plan to boost overall computing power to 14 gigawatts next year, showed an internal memo reviewed by

Meta has commandeered a big chunk of Amazon's homegrown CPUs (not GPUs) for AI agentic workloads, signaling that a new kind of chip race has begun.

Meta employees' activity at work is now being used to train the company's AI agents. As reported by Reuters, Meta is installing a tool it calls Model Capability Initiative (MCI)

Meta is developing plans for a cloud infrastructure business, selling access to AI compute power and models. The move would pit it against the big cloud providers like Amazon Web

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The company is taking a modular approach to designing these chips, anticipating that their needs will change as AI evolves rapidly by the time the chips are in production.