With OpenAI, there are no allegiances - just compute at all costs

Analysis No longer bound to Microsoft's infrastructure, OpenAI is looking to expand its network of compute providers to the likes of Oracle, CoreWeave, and apparently even rival model builder Google.

But while OpenAI may have set up shop at the Chocolate Factory, it won't be using Google's home-grown tensor processing units (TPUs) to run or train its models anytime soon, the AI darling tells Reuters.

In a statement made to the publication over the weekend, OpenAI admitted it was playing with Google's TPUs, but didn't have any plans to deploy them at scale right now.

The denial comes days after The Information reported that Google had managed to convince the model builder to transition its workloads over to the home-grown accelerators.

OpenAI's alleged embrace of Google's TPU tech was seen by many as a sign that the Sam Altman-backed model builder wasn't ...