Rival AI Giants OpenAI and Google Might Team Up – Here’s Why

Relationships between AI giants begin to shuffle as OpenAI is no longer locked into a deal with Microsoft Azure for cloud services.

OpenAI may turn to Google cloud services to fulfill the generative AI’s massive computing capacity needs, according to multiple people contacted by Reuters. Google’s generative AI models, including Gemini and its AI Overview in Google Search, are primary competitors to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, especially as ChatGPT increasingly resembles a search engine. However, it may be that the two can’t survive as competitors alone, as OpenAI knows its models require increasingly more resources, and may not want Microsoft to provide all of it.

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OpenAI models may train and run on Google Cloud services

The reported deal, finalized in May, would allow OpenAI to develop, deploy, and run inference on its models using Google ...