Mark Zuckerberg indicates Meta is spending billions of dollars on Nvidia AI chips

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Mark Zuckerberg indicates Meta is spending billions of dollars on Nvidia AI chips
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Summary: Meta, led by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, is investing billions in Nvidia's H100 graphics cards to build a massive compute infrastructure for AI research and projects. By end of 2024, Meta aims to have 350,000 of these GPUs, with total expenditures potentially reaching $9 billion. This move is part of Meta's focus on developing artificial general intelligence (AGI), competing with firms like OpenAI and Google's DeepMind. The company's AI and computing investments are a key part of its 2024 budget, emphasizing AI as their largest investment area.

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total expenditures potentially reaching $9 billion

I imagine they negotiated quite the discount in that.

Agreed. There's volume discount, and then there is "Facebook data center with an energy consumption of a small country volume discount".