Meta reportedly plans cloud business to sell AI compute power, competing with AWS and Azure
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Rebecca Bellan
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Meta is reportedly developing plans for a cloud infrastructure business to sell access to its AI compute power and models, following a similar move by SpaceX/xAI. This would position Meta against major cloud providers like AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure, as the company looks to monetize its massive AI data center investments.
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· 3 pulledMeta has spent billions of dollars developing AI and building out data centers to support it.
Bloomberg reported that Meta is developing plans for a cloud infrastructure business, selling access to both AI compute power and models.
The move would pit it against the big cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.
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