Meta is planning to sell access to its AI computing power to outside customers, in a move that would see it compete directly with AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.
Meta is developing plans to enter the cloud computing market, building a business that would sell access to AI computing power and models to external customers, according to Bloomberg.
Bloomberg cites sources that say the social media giant is forming a unit to generate revenue from excess computing capacity, putting it in direct competition with established cloud providers Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.
The plans are being developed under an internal initiative called Meta Compute, led by Santosh Janardhan, Meta’s head of infrastructure, alongside Daniel Gross from the Meta Superintelligence Labs AI unit and Meta President Dina Powell McCormick.
One option reportedly under consideration is a service similar to AWS’s Bedrock offering, where developers would pay to access AI models hosted on Meta’s infrastructure, including its own Muse Spark models. The company is also weighing the sale of raw computing capacity, in a model comparable to neocloud providers like CoreWeave.
