OpenAI plans to buy Google TPUs as it widens its chip supply
The Information's report points to a possible hardware purchase, as OpenAI hires TPU specialists and builds a compute portfolio beyond Nvidia.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Primary source: Reuters
Why it matters
A reported TPU purchase would put OpenAI's public push for compute diversity into hardware procurement, while keeping Nvidia central. The scale, timing and workloads remain unspecified.
OpenAI plans to buy Google's tensor processing units, according to The Information's report, a move that would deepen a chip-supply relationship already taking shape through cloud rentals. The report, published October 27th, cites a person familiar with the plan. It gives no purchase price, chip count, model, delivery schedule or intended workload; it describes a plan, not a completed transaction.…
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