March 9 (Reuters) - Meta executives on Thursday acknowledged that the company was catching up from behind on infrastructure capacity for artificial intelligence, saying they had been "little bit late" to the trend of deploying graphics processing units, or GPUs.

"We were a little bit late to the trends, so we're playing a little bit of catch-up" after years of optimizing for CPUs, said Chief Operating Officer Javier Olivan, speaking at a Morgan Stanley conference. (Reporting by Eva Mathews in Bengaluru and Katie Paul in New York; Editing by Maju Samuel)