OpenAI has inked a deal with Google to begin using the latter’s cloud service to meet its growing needs for increased computing capacity, according to a report by Reuters. This is something of a surprise, given that Google and OpenAI are rivals in the AI space.
The terms of the deal remain unknown, but reporting indicates it has been in the negotiation phase for the past several months. This marks OpenAI’s latest move to diversify its compute sources away from Microsoft Azure.
Microsoft had been OpenAI’s exclusive data center
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