Meta follows SpaceX's playbook and builds a cloud business to sell its spare AI compute to outside customers
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Meta is launching a cloud business to monetize its excess AI compute capacity, investing up to $145 billion in AI this year.
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Meta is launching a cloud business to monetize its excess AI compute capacity, investing up to $145 billion in AI this year. This raises questions about why Meta isn't utilizing all this capacity for its own AI models, similar to the scrutiny faced by xAI.
Key Points
- Meta plans to invest $145 billion in AI this year.
- The new cloud service targets external customers for spare compute.
- Questions arise about underutilization of AI resources.
- Meta's strategy mirrors SpaceX's approach to cloud computing.
- This move could reshape the competitive landscape for AI services.
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From source RSS / original summaryMeta is building its own cloud business to sell spare AI compute to outside customers. With planned AI investments of up to $145 billion this year alone, the same question that came up with xAI now applies to Meta: why isn't the company putting all that capacity to work on its own models? The article Meta follows SpaceX's playbook and builds a cloud business to sell its spare AI compute to outside customers appeared first on The Decoder.
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