OpenAI reported to plan purchases of Google's TPU AI chips
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Reuters, citing The Information, reports that OpenAI plans to buy Google's Tensor Processing Units (TPUs). This is reported, not confirmed: no price, volume or delivery schedule was disclosed, Google did not comment and OpenAI declined to comment. OpenAI is one of the largest buyers of NVIDIA GPUs, began renting Google's chips in 2025 and plans to deploy its own Broadcom-designed chip by the end of 2026. On the same day Oracle announced it will offer Google TPUs on its cloud from 2027.
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