Meta has been secretly relying on Google's AI for customer service, ad tools, and content moderation – then got cut off
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WTF?! Few companies seem less likely to run out of AI capacity than Google and Meta, but even the industry's biggest names can hit a token wall. The search giant has reportedly limited the Facebook owner's use of Gemini after demand for AI capacity grew beyond what it could supply.
According to the Financial Times, Google warned Meta around March that it could not provide all the capacity the company wanted, disrupting and delaying internal AI projects.
The restrictions are still said to be in place. Meta has reportedly told employees to be more careful with AI tokens, the units used to measure model input, output, and usage. That's quite the change of tone for a company that has spent the past year pushing – and in some cases forcing – staff...
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