Meta pays Microsoft hundreds of millions a year to rent AI models
21-08-2026 19:18 via thenextweb.com

Meta pays Microsoft hundreds of millions a year to rent AI models

Meta is spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year buying access to AI models through Microsoft’s cloud. The company runs trillions of tokens a week through Azure, Bloomberg reported, citing a person familiar with the matter who asked not to be identified. That makes Meta one of Microsoft’s largest AI customers. Both companies declined […]
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