OpenAI Plans to Buy Google's AI Chips as It Looks Beyond Nvidia: Report
Summary
OpenAI is reportedly planning to buy Google’s tensor processing units (TPUs), potentially reducing its reliance on Nvidia. The companies have not confirmed the plan, and its scale, cost and delivery schedule are unknown. OpenAI previously tested rented TPUs, while a job listing seeking engineers to optimize models for the chips lends weight to the report. A purchase would add to OpenAI’s efforts to diversify computing hardware, following major agreements involving Nvidia and AMD and development of a custom inference chip with Broadcom. Google has begun delivering TPU systems to customers, while rival Anthropic has secured future TPU capacity.
