Meta to charge cloud providers for AI tech that it said was free

  • On July 18, Meta announced that it was teaming up with Microsoft and Amazon to offer its LLM on its partners’ cloud offerings without charging for access or use
  • Meta has now included a term for the largest cloud companies that they do not get a free license to use it, but have to make a business arrangement with Meta

The logo of Meta Platforms’ business group is seen in Brussels, Belgium December 6, 2022. Photo: Reuters

Meta Platforms plans to make money from the major cloud-computing companies when they resell its artificial intelligence (AI) large language model, Llama 2.

“If you’re someone like Microsoft, Amazon or Google, and you’re going to basically be reselling the services, that’s something that we think we should get some portion of the revenue for,” Meta Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said Wednesday on a quarterly earnings call. “I don’t think that that’s going to be a large amount of revenue in the near-term, but over the long term, hopefully that can be something.”

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