The Information reported that OpenAI plans to procure Google artificial-intelligence chips as it works to reduce reliance on Nvidia, citing people familiar with the matter.
Terms remain unclear
The potential purchase would involve Google’s Tensor Processing Units, but the financial terms and other details remain unclear. OpenAI is recruiting an engineer to lead optimization of its frontier models for TPUs. A company spokesperson said OpenAI currently has no plans to use TPUs exclusively, and the report described the work as being in an early stage.
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