OpenAI plans to buy Google's TPUs, adding a second chip supplier alongside Nvidia
The Information reported Oct 27 that OpenAI intends to buy Google's tensor processing units, with no terms, volumes or timeline disclosed, and OpenAI is already hiring engineers to optimize its frontier models for TPU training and inference. It lands a week after OpenAI put its models on Google Cloud and the same day Google said Oracle will offer TPUs through its cloud (The Next Web).