OpenAI said Wednesday that it expects to use Google’sChatGPT artificial intelligence assistant.
The reach for additional capacity aligns with OpenAI’s desire for more computing power to meet heavy demand after initially relying exclusively on Microsofta competitor last year.
Both companies sell AI tools for developers and offer subscriptions to companies.
OpenAI has added Google to a list of suppliers, specifying that ChatGPT and its application programming interface will use the Google Cloud Platform, as well as Microsoft, CoreWeaveOracle
The announcement amounts to a win for Google, whose cloud unit is younger and smaller than AmazonMicrosoft
The Google infrastructure will run in the U.S., Japan, the Netherlands, Norway and the United Kingdom.
Last year, Oracleannounced that it was partnering with Microsoft and OpenAl “to extend the Microsoft Azure Al platform to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure” to give OpenAI additional computing power. In March, OpenAI committed to a cloud agreement with CoreWeave in a five-year deal worth nearly $12 billion.
Microsoft said in January that it had agreed to move to a model of providing the right of first refusal anytime OpenAI needs more computing resources, rather than being its exclusive vendor across the board. Microsoft continues to hold the exclusive on OpenAI’s programming interfaces.
Sam Altman, OpenAI’s co-founder and CEO, said in April that the startup, which draws on Nvidia
“if anyone has GPU capacity in 100k chunks we can get asap please call!” he wrote in an X post at the time.
Reuters reported in June that OpenAI was planning to bring on cloud capacity from Google.
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