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Meta’s Switchboard Router Takes Aim at AI’s Soaring Inference Bill

Meta raised 2026 capital spending to $125 billion to $145 billion as it expands custom chips and infrastructure to curb AI inference costs.

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Meta Platforms faces a reckoning on artificial intelligence costs. The social media giant plans to spend as much as $145 billion on capital expenditures this year. Much of that money feeds power-hungry data centers and accelerators running large language models. Yet many coding tasks sent to those frontier systems don’t need such firepower. Simple requests still rack up premium prices. Enter Switchboard. The company’s internal AI incubator, know…

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WebProNews broke the news on Thursday, July 23, 2026.
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