According to a source familiar with the matter, Meta Platforms spends hundreds of millions of dollars each year to access artificial intelligence models through Microsoft's Azure cloud services. Meta uses trillions of tokens each week through the platform. Both companies declined to comment. An important pillar of Microsoft's AI strategy is to provide models from multiple vendors through a marketplace called Foundry, which had 100,000 customers as of July. Customers from traditional industries such as manufacturing or transportation often appear in Microsoft promotional materials. However, according to people familiar with the matter, most of its biggest AI customers are still other technology companies. Adobe, Perplexity, and AI startup Sierra are also major Microsoft customers. People familiar with the matter revealed that Meta is investing heavily in AI to assist in its software development, purchasing model access through multiple platforms based on availability and cost. Meta developers have used OpenAI technology through Foundry to help evaluate the output of their own models.

According to a source familiar with the matter, Meta Platforms spends hundreds of millions of dollars each year to access artificial intelligence models through Microsoft's Azure cloud services. Meta uses trillions of tokens each week through the platform. Both companies declined to comment. An important pillar of Microsoft's AI strategy is to provide models from multiple vendors through a marketplace called Foundry, which had 100,000 customers as of July. Customers from traditional industries such as manufacturing or transportation often appear in Microsoft promotional materials. However, according to people familiar with the matter, most of its biggest AI customers are still other technology companies. Adobe, Perplexity, and AI startup Sierra are also major Microsoft customers. People familiar with the matter revealed that Meta is investing heavily in AI to assist in its software development, purchasing model access through multiple platforms based on availability and cost. Meta developers have used OpenAI technology through Foundry to help evaluate the output of their own models.