Zuckerberg confirmed that Meta is exploring launching a cloud AI business

Mark Zuckerberg publicly confirmed that Meta is considering launching a cloud business based on its artificial intelligence computing resources. According to his words reported by Bloomberg, selling access to computing resources to third-party customers "makes sense" for the company.

What stands behind Zuckerberg's confirmation

The statement by the head of Meta puts his name under a plan that media sources already reported about earlier this month. The project received the working title Meta Compute and assumes leasing out excess computing power that the company has been building up for its own artificial intelligence needs.

• The confirmation was made personally by Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta
• The quote source is Bloomberg
• The project's working title is Meta Compute
• It is about leasing out free computing resources of the company

Why Meta could go into the cloud business

Meta has already invested enormous sums in building data centers and purchasing accelerators for training its own Llama family models and other AI products. Like other technology giants, the company faces a situation where peak computing infrastructure load does not coincide with constant demand — during idle periods, computing power can be monetized by leasing it to third-party developers and companies.

What does this mean

If Meta really launches its own cloud AI direction, it will put the company in direct competition with existing cloud computing providers for AI — Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, which have long been earning money from leasing GPU resources to the growing market of AI developers.