Meta has partnered with Cerebras Systems to power its new Llama API, offering developers access to inference speeds up to 18 times faster than traditional GPU-based solutions. This partnership enables Meta to compete directly with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google in the growing AI inference service market, where developers purchase tokens to power their applications. The partnership enables new categories of applications, including real-time agents, conversational voice systems, interactive code generation, and instant multi-step reasoning.