Meta Inks Deal to Use Amazon’s Graviton Processors for AI (1)

Amazon.com Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc. have struck a multibillion-dollar deal for the social-media giant to rent hundreds of thousands of Amazon’s general-purpose chips for its AI efforts.

The multiyear deal gives Meta access to the Graviton line of processors, Nafea Bshara, an Amazon vice president and co-founder of the company’s Annapurna Labs chips unit, said in an interview.

Artificial intelligence models capable of generating text or reasoning are typically built using graphics processing units from Nvidia Corp. But AI developers can use general-purpose central processing units like Graviton for related tasks, including generating the responses to queries after a ...