Meta Platforms has locked in a multibillion-dollar pact with Amazon Web Services, committing to deploy hundreds of thousands of Graviton processors across its 32 data centers over the next three years. The deal, announced Friday, hands Meta access to tens of millions of Graviton cores—each chip packing 192 of them—for the demanding workloads of agentic AI. CPUs, not GPUs. That’s the twist here. Business Wire broke the news first, calling it a major expansion of their partnership. Santosh Janardhan, Meta’s head of infrastructure, put it bluntly: “As we scale the infrastructure behind Meta’s AI ambitions, diversifying our compute sources is a strategic imperative. AWS has been a trusted cloud partner for years, and expanding to Graviton allows us to run the CPU-intensive workloads behind agentic AI with the performance and efficiency we need at our scale.” CNET captured that quote amid details on Meta’s $135 billion AI spend this year alone. Graviton5 packs a punch.…