Meta Platforms Inc., the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, has unveiled a series of breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI) and networking technologies aimed at powering the next generation of large-scale data centers. The announcement came during the 2025 Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit held this week in San Jose, California.
The company said the rapid evolution of AI is transforming how global infrastructure is built, driving innovation across hardware, software, and network design.
Founded by Facebook in 2011, the Open Compute Project (OCP) has become a leading platform for open-source hardware collaboration. Meta, one of its founding members, continues to use the annual summit to showcase advancements that support open standards and scalable AI systems.
“The advent of AI has changed all our assumptions on how to scale our infrastructure,” wrote Yee Jiun Song, Vice President, and Kaushik Veeraraghavan, Software Engineer for Infra Foundation at Meta, in a company blog post. “Building infrastructure for AI requires innovation at every layer of the stack, from hardware and software to networks and data centers.”
Meta reaffirmed its commitment to open systems development, emphasizing the need for standardization across racks, power systems, and networking layers as AI clusters become more powerful and complex.
They added that software innovation and interoperability are critical, particularly as AI workloads are distributed across heterogeneous hardware and multiple data centers worldwide.
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