Meta Platforms and Amazon.com have entered into a multi-year, multibillion-dollar agreement for the social-media giant to use Amazon Web Services' Graviton5 central processing unit (CPU) chips. Under the deal, Meta will rent hundreds of thousands of these general-purpose chips to power its artificial intelligence efforts.
The company is utilizing these homegrown CPUs, rather than GPUs, specifically for AI agentic workloads. This strategic shift signals the start of a new kind of chip race within the industry.
The agreement with Amazon comes shortly after Meta made $48 billion in AI commitments with CoreWeave and Nebius.