Meta’s New Chip Underlines Questions About AI Spending

Mark Zuckerberg seems to enjoy stealing Sundar Pichai’s thunder. Close observers of the cloud sector will know that Google Cloud has one of its big annual events in Las Vegas this week, and it’s rolling out lots of announcements, including a new custom-designed chip for cloud computing. It seems Meta Platforms couldn’t resist getting in on the action, announcing today its first internally designed chip for running artificial intelligence models, as part of a new “AI-optimized data center design.” You …

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