WASHINGTON

Meta Platforms and NVIDIA announced a multi-year strategic partnership Tuesday aimed at expanding Meta’s AI-optimized data center infrastructure and accelerating the development of advanced artificial intelligence systems.

The agreement calls for the large-scale deployment of NVIDIA’s computing and networking technologies across Meta’s data centers to support AI training, inference and the company’s core services.

The companies said the collaboration is designed to deliver significant improvements in performance per watt, enabling more efficient AI operations at scale.

“No one deploys AI at Meta’s scale — integrating frontier research with industrial-scale infrastructure to power the world’s largest personalization and recommendation systems for billions of users,” NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang said in a statement.

“Through deep co-design across CPUs, GPUs, networking, and software, we are bringing the full NVIDIA platform to Meta’s researchers and engineers as they build the foundation for the next AI frontier,” he said.

As part of the expanded partnership, Meta will deploy NVIDIA’s Confidential Computing technology to support AI-powered features within WhatsApp, with an emphasis on maintaining user data confidentiality and integrity.

The company will also adopt NVIDIA’s Spectrum-X Ethernet networking platform across its infrastructure footprint to provide low-latency, high-performance networking optimized for AI workloads.

“We’re excited to expand our partnership with NVIDIA to build leading-edge clusters using their Vera Rubin platform to deliver personal superintelligence to everyone in the world,” said Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Meta.