Meta Platforms has signed a deal with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to use the latter’s Graviton processors to support the social media giant’s agentic AI moves, in a deal reportedly worth billions of dollars.
AWS explained the deal initially covered “tens of millions of Graviton cores” with the flexibility to expand the number as Meta’s AI demands increase. Each of its latest Graviton5 Central Processing Units (CPUs) has 192 cores and a sizable cache.
It asserted the agreement reflected a shift in how AI infrastructure is built.
While it acknowledged GPUs were essential for training large models it noted “the rise of agentic AI is creating massive demand for CPU-intensive workloads”. These include real time reasoning, code generation, search and orchestrating multi-step tasks.
AWS stated its customer would be able to run those tasks effectively at scale on its chips. Meta also intends to use the infrastructure for various other applications.
The pact is the latest in an ongoing relationship between the pair and makes Meta one of the largest customers for Graviton processors.
In its statement, Meta head of infrastructure Santosh Janardhan noted “as we scale the infrastructure behind Meta’s AI ambitions, diversifying our compute sources is a strategic imperative”.
“Graviton allows us to run the CPU-intensive workloads behind agentic AI with the performance and efficiency we need at our scale”.
AWS did not disclose the value of the deal. However, both Bloomberg and Reuters reported it would be worth billions of dollars across a span of multiple years.
