Mark Zuckerberg, Meta chief executive officer (CEO), suggested that Meta is considering renting out some of its AI infrastructure to outside parties, saying, "Computing resources needed to develop and run artificial intelligence (AI) are extremely scarce."
In an interview with Bloomberg on the 9th (local time), he said, "Because the amounts offered to use Meta's computing resources are very high, depending on the situation, it may be reasonable to rent them externally instead of using them internally." Earlier, Bloomberg reported that Meta would enter the cloud business selling computing resources and AI models to external customers.
On the potential move into the cloud business, CEO Zuckerberg said, "If we want to, we can do it at any time," but emphasized that this does not mean Meta has overbuilt AI infrastructure or has surplus computing resources. "No one in the industry feels there is too much computing," he said, adding, "We are also using all the computing resources we currently have."
Bloomberg reported earlier this month that Meta is preparing a cloud business model called "Meta Compute." One option under consideration is a platform as a service (PaaS) that uses its own AI Semiconductor and data centers to run its latest AI model, "Muse Spark," and charges external developers to use the model via an application programming interface (API). Another is an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) that rents out pure compute resources wholesale to neo-cloud corporations.