{"slug": "meta-spends-hundreds-of-millions-on-microsoft-s-ai-services", "title": "Meta spends hundreds of millions on Microsoft's AI services", "summary": "Meta has become one of Microsoft's largest AI customers, spending hundreds of millions of dollars annually on AI models through Microsoft's Azure cloud service, according to Bloomberg. Meta's engineers use OpenAI models available via Microsoft's Foundry marketplace to benchmark Meta's own models, while Meta builds its own API service that could compete with Foundry. ByteDance tops Foundry's customer list, followed by Adobe, Perplexity, and Sierra, but OpenAI alone accounts for roughly 70 percent of Microsoft's AI revenue.", "body_md": "# Meta spends hundreds of millions on Microsoft's AI services\n\n**Meta has become one of Microsoft's biggest AI customers, according to Bloomberg.** The company spends hundreds of millions of dollars a year accessing AI models through Microsoft's cloud service Azure. Meta burns through trillions of tokens on the platform every week.\n\nMeta's engineers use OpenAI models available through Microsoft's Foundry marketplace, among other tools, to [benchmark the performance of Meta's own models.](https://the-decoder.com/frontier-radar-4-china-has-caught-up-so-whats-left-of-the-western-ai-lead/) At the same time, Meta is building its own API service that could end up competing with Foundry. It's a similar pattern to what happened with Bing. Meta once relied on Microsoft's search engine, then eventually replaced it with its own tech.\n\nMost of Microsoft's biggest AI customers are other tech companies. ByteDance tops the list of Foundry customers, followed by Adobe, Perplexity, and Sierra. But roughly 70 percent of Microsoft's AI revenue comes from OpenAI alone, which mainly buys massive amounts of compute through Azure. Foundry accounts for only a slice of that business.\n\n```\nAI News Without the Hype – Curated by Humans\n\n\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe to THE DECODER for ad-free reading, a weekly AI newsletter, our exclusive \"AI Radar\" frontier report six times a year, full archive access, and access to our comment section.\t\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe now\n```\n\n[Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-20/meta-has-quietly-become-one-of-microsoft-s-largest-ai-customers)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meta-spends-hundreds-of-millions-on-microsoft-s-ai-services", "canonical_source": "https://the-decoder.com/meta-spends-hundreds-of-millions-on-microsofts-ai-services/", "published_at": "2026-08-21 10:54:41+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-21 11:14:11.052321+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-products", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["Meta", "Microsoft", "Azure", "OpenAI", "Foundry", "ByteDance", "Adobe", "Perplexity"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meta-spends-hundreds-of-millions-on-microsoft-s-ai-services", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meta-spends-hundreds-of-millions-on-microsoft-s-ai-services.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meta-spends-hundreds-of-millions-on-microsoft-s-ai-services.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meta-spends-hundreds-of-millions-on-microsoft-s-ai-services.jsonld"}}