Amazon announced on April 24 that Meta has signed a deal for millions of AWS Graviton ARM-based CPUs — not GPUs — to power AI agent workloads including real-time reasoning, code execution, and multi-step agent coordination. The deal signals a growing split in AI infrastructure: GPUs dominate model training, but agentic workloads favor high-core-count CPUs optimized for latency-sensitive tasks. Amazon framed the deal as a competitive win against Nvidia's Vera CPU and Google Cloud, which holds a separate multi-billion-dollar cloud agreement with Meta from 2025.