Meta Platforms has emerged as one of Microsoft’s largest artificial intelligence customers which highlights the growing demand for computing power and AI models even among companies investing billions of dollars in their own AI infrastructure.
According to a Bloomberg report published on Thursday, Meta is spending hundreds of millions of dollars annually to access AI models through Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform.
The development is notable because Meta has been pursuing an aggressive strategy to build its own AI infrastructure.
The Facebook and Instagram parent has committed substantial resources to data centres, AI chips and computing capacity as it develops its next generation of AI products.
Meta has also been expanding its use of multiple infrastructure partners rather than relying on a single provider. In April, the company announced a partnership with Amazon Web Services to add tens of millions of AWS Graviton cores to its computing portfolio for agentic AI workloads.
