Meta has announced a partnership with Arm to develop the Arm AGI CPU, a new class of processors aimed at enhancing AI workloads and general-purpose computing in data centers. The AGI CPU is designed to improve performance per rack and support large-scale AI deployments, complementing Meta's custom MTIA silicon. This collaboration marks Arm's first major in-house data center chip effort, with TSMC manufacturing the chip on a 3-nanometer process, and volume production expected in the second half of 2026. The AGI CPU is built for the agentic AI era, capable of orchestrating accelerators, memory, storage, networking, and distributed AI tasks. Arm claims the chip can deliver over twice the performance per rack compared to current x86 systems, potentially saving up to $10 billion in capital expenditure per gigawatt of AI data center capacity. The CPU will be available to other customers, with OpenAI, Cloudflare, and others named as launch partners. Meta plans to release its board and rack designs through the Open Compute Project later this year.