• Meta Platforms held talks to lease AI compute to Anthropic in a potential deal up to $10B over two years; payments monthly; would use Meta’s data-center GPUs to run Claude models; talks preliminary.
  • Meta Platforms (META) joined Microsoft and Alphabet in leasing part of a record 9.6 GW of power capacity in Q2 for AI data centers, signaling increased infrastructure demand for AI workloads.
  • Meta Platforms hired former AWS exec Dave Brown to lead AI cloud efforts, focusing on AI cloud infrastructure and data‑center capabilities as Meta scales its AI investments.
  • Meta Platforms (META) joined the CuspAI AI Materials Foundry, a 48+ member coalition led by CuspAI to use AI for discovering materials for semiconductor and advanced manufacturing.