Huan Qiu Wang Zi Xun·2026-02-18 04:03Group 1 - Nvidia and Meta have announced a multi-year, multi-billion dollar chip procurement agreement, where Meta will purchase millions of Nvidia's latest AI acceleration chips, including the upcoming "Vera Rubin" series [1][3] - Meta's CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated that the company plans to invest up to $135 billion in AI infrastructure by 2026, nearly double its spending in 2025 [3] - Despite challenges in its own AI chip development, Meta continues to rely on Nvidia's established solutions due to technical challenges and deployment delays in its self-developed AI chip projects [3] Group 2 - The transaction highlights a shift in AI computing focus from "model training" to the "inference" phase, with Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang adjusting the product strategy to sell CPUs as standalone products rather than integrated with GPUs [3] - The growing demand for efficient, low-latency inference capabilities is driving this change in hardware architecture, as noted by industry analysts [3]