OpenAI Plans to Buy Google AI Chips as It Builds Out Computing Power
OpenAI plans to buy artificial intelligence chips from Google, according to a person familiar with the matter. The Information first reported the plan, and Bloomberg and Reuters later cited the same kind of source. The final terms of any deal are not known. OPENAI REPORTEDLY PLANS TO BUY GOOGLE AI CHIPS OpenAI plans to purchase AI chips from Google ($GOOGL), according to The Information, citing a person familiar with the matter. Financial terms and the size of the potential deal were not disclosed. Reuters has not independently… OpenAI and Google both declined to comment. The source asked not to be named because the talks are private. The chips are Google’s tensor processing units, or TPUs. Google began working on them more than a decade ago. At first, they were used to speed up its web search engine and make it run more efficiently. The chips later proved useful for AI work. In recent…