Meta, the social media giant, is in talks with Anthropic about leasing computing capacity to the AI startup. This move could put Meta in competition with Amazon, Microsoft, and Google in the cloud computing market.
Investing in AI Infrastructure
Meta has been investing heavily in data center infrastructure to support its AI ambitions, planning to spend between $125 billion and $145 billion in capital expenditures this year. This investment could double what it spent the prior year.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has mentioned the possibility of leasing out some of that infrastructure if his own company’s computing needs didn’t keep pace with the buildout. Anthropic already has multibillion-dollar compute licensing deals with Google, SpaceX, Microsoft, and Amazon.
Meta last month released an upgraded version of its Muse Spark AI model that it said could rival the coding capabilities of models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and others. For the first time, Meta said it would offer a paid version of the service, yet another sign it’s looking for bigger returns on AI.
Original reporting: KTVZ (Central Oregon) — read the source article.
