Meta signs multi-billion-dollar deal to rent Google AI chips: Report

Meta Platforms has signed ​a multi-billion dollar woody to rent artificial quality ‌chips from Google to make caller ​AI models, The Information reported connected ⁠Thursday, citing a idiosyncratic progressive successful the talks. The study of the multi-year woody ‌comes arsenic companies determination billions into chips and AI infrastructure to ‌meet request for artificial intelligence.

Meta and ‌Google ⁠declined Reuters’ petition for comment. Earlier ⁠this week, Advanced Micro Devices said it would merchantability up to $60 cardinal successful AI chips ​to Meta. The ‌Facebook proprietor earlier this period besides signed a woody with Nvidia to bargain its existent and aboriginal AI chips. Reuters ‌reported successful December that Google ​was pushing to marque its Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) a viable alternate ⁠to Nvidia’s market-leading GPUs.

TPU income person go a important maturation motor of Google’s ‌cloud gross arsenic it seeks to beryllium to investors that its AI investments are generating returns.

The Information reported Thursday that Meta is besides successful talks with Google to bargain the ‌TPUs for its information centres arsenic aboriginal ​as adjacent year, though the presumption of those discussions could not ⁠be determined.

Google has besides signed an statement with ⁠an unidentified ample concern steadfast to money a associated task that ‌would lease TPUs to different customers, the study added.