In 2024, the social media giant began advertising for engineers to help build its own state-of-the-art machine learning accelerators, and now, according to an exclusive report from Reuters, Meta is at the testing stage for its first in-house chip designed for training AI systems.

Facebook owner Meta is testing its first in-house chip for training artificial intelligence systems, a key milestone as it moves to design more of its own custom silicon and reduce reliance on external suppliers like Nvidia ,

Meta Platforms Inc. is forging ahead with its plans to reduce its reliance on Nvidia Corp.’s graphics processing units, and is currently testing its first in-house artificial intelligence training chip.

Meta is evaluating its AI training accelerator, which could reduce its reliance on Nvidia's AI GPUs for training.

Any setbacks in new chips meant that companies were forced to use older chips, which might not sit well with customers. Perhaps the AI industry is learning from this, because, according to a report from Reuters,

Meta has long been one of NVIDIA’s biggest customers, relying on its GPUs to train AI models. But, as the company has bet big on AI, its spending on AI infrastructure has soared through the roof. Now,

The Facebook owner is currently one of Nvidia’s biggest customers, amassing an arsenal of GPUs to train AI models.