Overview
- The agreement covers large-scale deployments of Blackwell and Rubin GPUs across Meta’s training and inference clusters, with no financial terms disclosed.
- Meta becomes the first to roll out Nvidia’s Grace CPUs in standalone production systems, with Vera CPU deployments targeted for 2027 to handle agentic and back-end workloads.
- Nvidia says Grace delivers up to 2x performance per watt on certain data-center tasks, with early Vera testing at Meta described as promising.
- Meta is adopting Nvidia’s Spectrum‑X Ethernet switches across its infrastructure and building a unified architecture that spans on‑premises data centers and Nvidia Cloud Partner capacity.
- Nvidia Confidential Computing will power privacy-protected AI features in WhatsApp, as analysts peg the overall commitment in the tens of billions and note reduced concern over a potential Meta shift to Google TPUs.