OpenAI Reportedly Plans to Buy Google AI Chips to Reduce Reliance on Nvidia

According to TechFlow, on October 28, citing The Information, people familiar with the matter said OpenAI plans to purchase Google's artificial intelligence chips, accelerating its shift away from reliance on Nvidia. If OpenAI decides to purchase Google's tensor processing units (TPUs), it would be a major win for Google's chip business. The financial terms and other details of OpenAI's planned purchase of Google chips remain unclear. OpenAI is hiring an engineer to 'lead optimization' of the company's most advanced frontier models so they can run on TPUs.

According to a report by The Information last year, OpenAI had already begun using Google TPUs to reduce its reliance on Nvidia chips. The news prompted Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to take swift action, after which Nvidia and OpenAI began cooperating on a new agreement. An OpenAI spokesperson later said the company 'currently has no specific plans to use TPUs.' OpenAI's job posting indicates that its work to optimize models for TPUs remains in early stages.

Source: TechFlow