OpenAI reportedly plans to purchase Google TPU chips, diversifying its hardware sourcing beyond Nvidia, though neither company has confirmed the deal.
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💻 OpenAI plans to buy AI chips from Google, the company behind Gemini OpenAI, one of Nvidia's biggest customers, plans to buy Google's own AI chips, called TPUs, according to The Information and Bloomberg. Both cite a person familiar with the matter. Terms and the size of the deal weren't disclosed, and OpenAI declined to comment. The two rivals keep doing business. OpenAI has rented Google's chips since 2025, and last week said its models would be available through Google Cloud. Google began selling TPUs directly to some customers this year. Oracle will also rent them out in its cloud from 2027, and OpenAI is building its own chip with Broadcom. @aipost 🏴
Open mentionReuters reported on Tuesday (Oct 28), citing The Information and a person familiar with the matter, that OpenAI plans to buy Google's AI chips (TPUs). No financial terms were disclosed, and both companies declined to comment or did not immediately respond. The report follows last week's news that OpenAI will make its frontier models available through Google Cloud, and a June 2025 Reuters report that OpenAI had begun renting Google's TPUs. The context: Google's TPUs have gained traction as an alternative to Nvidia's GPUs as companies look for cheaper AI compute, and Reuters notes Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet together plan as much as $600 billion in AI infrastructure spending this year. Source: https://bworldonline.com/technology/2026/10/28/789847/openai-plans-to-buy-googles-ai-chips-the-i
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