{"id":147186,"date":"2026-08-21T11:24:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T11:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/147186\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T11:24:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T11:24:36","slug":"meta-spends-hundreds-of-millions-on-microsofts-ai-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/147186\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta spends hundreds of millions on Microsoft&#8217;s AI services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta has become one of Microsoft&#8217;s biggest AI customers, according to Bloomberg. The company spends hundreds of millions of dollars a year accessing AI models through Microsoft&#8217;s cloud service Azure. Meta burns through trillions of tokens on the platform every week.<\/p>\n<p>Meta&#8217;s engineers use OpenAI models available through Microsoft&#8217;s Foundry marketplace, among other tools, to <a href=\"https:\/\/the-decoder.com\/frontier-radar-4-china-has-caught-up-so-whats-left-of-the-western-ai-lead\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">benchmark the performance of Meta&#8217;s own models.<\/a> At the same time, Meta is building its own API service that could end up competing with Foundry. It&#8217;s a similar pattern to what happened with Bing. Meta once relied on Microsoft&#8217;s search engine, then eventually replaced it with its own tech.<\/p>\n<p>Most of Microsoft&#8217;s biggest AI customers are other tech companies. ByteDance tops the list of Foundry customers, followed by Adobe, Perplexity, and Sierra. But roughly 70 percent of Microsoft&#8217;s AI revenue comes from OpenAI alone, which mainly buys massive amounts of compute through Azure. Foundry accounts for only a slice of that business.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tAI News Without the Hype \u2013 Curated by Humans<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe to THE DECODER for ad-free reading, a weekly AI newsletter, our exclusive &#8220;AI Radar&#8221; frontier report six times a year, full archive access, and access to our comment section.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/the-decoder.com\/subscription\/\" class=\"inline-block text-white bg-(--heise-primary) mt-3 hover:bg-blue-800 focus:ring-4 focus:outline-none focus:ring-blue-300 font-medium rounded-sm w-full sm:w-auto  pl-3 pr-3 py-2.5 text-center newsletter-submit-button hover:no-underline\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe now\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meta has become one of Microsoft&#8217;s biggest AI customers, according to Bloomberg. The company spends hundreds of millions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[420,7829,1122,320,7828],"class_list":["post-147186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-microsoft","tag-azure","tag-azure-ai","tag-meta","tag-microsoft","tag-microsoft-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}