In a significant move, Meta has agreed to incorporate tens of millions of Graviton5 processors from Amazon Web Services into its advanced AI infrastructure. This partnership will last between three and five years and is valued at billions, making Meta one of AWS’s largest global customers for Graviton chips.
Nafea Bsharat, an AWS Vice President, shared with Reuters that the deal includes the deployment of these fifth-generation CPUs, designed specifically for agentic AI tasks—those capable of independent reasoning, code generation, and orchestrating complex operations.
Each Graviton5 chip features 192 cores, facilitating parallel processing which is crucial for handling intricate AI workflows. Santosh Janardhan, Meta’s Head of Infrastructure, highlighted the importance of diversifying compute sources as they scale their AI infrastructure: “AWS has been a trusted cloud partner for years, and with Graviton, we can efficiently manage CPU-intensive tasks essential for agentic AI at our required scale.”
This agreement signifies a shift from reliance on graphics processors to CPUs optimized for running trained models effectively, handling real-time user interactions, responses, and complex reasoning. The deal follows Meta’s announcement of mass layoffs, with 8,000 jobs to be eliminated and 6,000 positions remaining unfilled, as the company focuses more on AI development amid competition from giants like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.