
Meta MTIA 450: 18.4 TB/s Inference Accelerator
Meta's MTIA 450 doubles HBM bandwidth to 18.4 TB/s and adds FlashAttention hardware acceleration for GenAI inference in 2027.
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Meta's MTIA 450 doubles HBM bandwidth to 18.4 TB/s and adds FlashAttention hardware acceleration for GenAI inference in 2027.

Meta's second-gen ASIC delivers 6 PFLOPS FP8 and 288 GB HBM for GenAI and recommendation inference inside Meta's data centers.

Meta posted a record Q1 2026 revenue of $56.3 billion on April 29, then announced 8,000 layoffs and raised its AI infrastructure budget to $145 billion - sending the stock down 7% despite the record earnings.

Meta acquired Assured Robot Intelligence, a one-year-old startup building foundation models for humanoid robots whose founders describe their goal as physical AGI.

China's NDRC ordered Meta to reverse its $2B Manus acquisition and barred the startup's founders from leaving China, ending the 'Singapore washing' strategy that let Chinese AI firms dodge Beijing oversight.

Meta signs a multi-year AWS deal to deploy tens of millions of Graviton5 CPU cores, betting that agentic AI workloads need CPUs more than GPUs.

Meta is installing monitoring software on U.S. employee computers to capture keystrokes, mouse movements, and screenshots for training computer-use AI agents.

LeWorldModel from Yann LeCun's group strips JEPA world models down to two loss terms, trains 15M parameters on a single GPU in hours, and plans roughly 47x faster than DINO-WM.

A 19-person Meta AI and KAUST team including Jürgen Schmidhuber proposes Neural Computers - systems where the neural network itself is the running computer, trained solely on screen recordings.

Meta expands its CoreWeave partnership by $21 billion through December 2032, bringing total commitments to $35 billion and locking in early NVIDIA Vera Rubin deployments.

Meta's first proprietary frontier model leads on HealthBench Hard and scientific reasoning but trails rivals in coding and agentic tasks - with no public API yet.

Meta's first closed-source frontier model scores 52 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, leads on HealthBench Hard, and ships free at meta.ai - but has no public API yet.