Meta pays Microsoft hundreds of millions to develop AI, which will then be used against it

In this article we’re going to look at how Meta pays Microsoft hundreds of millions of dollars a year for their AI services. More specifically, we’ll see how Meta uses Azure Foundry to access OpenAI models and process trillions of tokens each week — all for testing their AI models, rather than for their own services.

Sounds familiar? That’s because it is! Just like Meta switched from using Bing Search to their own service, they’re now building a custom API service — in other words, a competitor to Foundry! And yes, even though these are the giants of the industry, they still have to pay those who compete with them.