Meta Stock: Meta Is One of Microsoft’s (MSFT) Biggest Azure AI Customers
TLDR
- Meta is spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year on Microsoft’s Azure cloud to access AI models.
- Meta uses trillions of AI tokens per week through the Azure Foundry platform.
- ByteDance has generally been Azure Foundry’s biggest spender, with Meta now joining the top tier.
- Other large Azure AI customers include Adobe, Perplexity, and Sierra.
- OpenAI still accounts for around 70% of Microsoft’s overall AI revenue.
Meta Platforms is spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to access AI models through Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform, Bloomberg News reported, making it one of Microsoft’s largest AI customers.
Each week, Meta consumes trillions of tokens through Azure, which is the standard unit used to measure AI computing usage.
The news comes as both companies declined to comment when contacted by Seeking Alpha.
Microsoft’s AI marketplace, called Foundry, had 100,000 customers as of July. While the platform serves clients across manufacturing and transportation, its biggest spenders are still tech companies.
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