The AI Ouroboros: Tech Giants Feed on Each Other as ByteDance Eyes a 5-Trillion-Parameter Model

The AI economy is increasingly circular — the biggest consumers of AI infrastructure are other tech companies, creating a market where money flows in loops rather than outward to traditional enterprise customers.

Evidence For

• Meta has quietly become one of Microsoft's largest AI customers, spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to access AI models through Azure's cloud service and consuming trillions of tokens weekly, according to Bloomberg sources -...