Meta and NVIDIA announce long-term AI infrastructure partnership

2026-02-18 - 08:02

Meta Platforms and NVIDIA announced a long-term strategic partnership Tuesday designed to enhance Meta's artificial intelligence infrastructure through large-scale deployment of NVIDIA's computing and networking technologies. The agreement focuses on supporting AI training, inference operations, and core services across Meta's data center footprint, with emphasis on improving performance per watt for more efficient large-scale AI operations. Executive Perspectives on Collaboration NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang emphasized the scale of Meta's AI deployment, stating: "No one deploys AI at Meta's scale—integrating frontier research with industrial-scale infrastructure to power the world's largest personalization and recommendation systems for billions of users." He highlighted deep co-design across processors, networking, and software as central to bringing the full NVIDIA platform to Meta's researchers and engineers as they develop next-generation AI capabilities. Technical Implementation and Applications Under the expanded partnership, Meta will integrate NVIDIA's Confidential Computing technology to support AI-powered features within WhatsApp while maintaining user data confidentiality and integrity. The company will also adopt NVIDIA's Spectrum-X Ethernet networking platform across its infrastructure to provide low-latency, high-performance networking optimized for AI workloads. Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg expressed enthusiasm for building "leading-edge clusters using their Vera Rubin platform to deliver personal superintelligence to everyone in the world."