Major Outages Impact Google Cloud, OpenAI, More This Week
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Many AI developers started their morning amid a Google Cloud outage affecting many of the tools they use to build products.
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Google Cloud will provide some cloud computing capacity for OpenAI after months of negotiation – bad news for Microsoft.
Under the new deal, Google Cloud will provide additional computing capacity to help OpenAI train and run its AI models. For OpenAI, the partnership addresses growing demands for computing power as the company's annual revenue reached $10 billion as of June, according to sources familiar with the matter who spoke to Reuters.
OpenAI has reportedly turned to one of its biggest competitors in the AI arms race to support the training of its ChatGPT models.
Relationships between AI giants begin to shuffle as OpenAI is no longer locked into a deal with Microsoft Azure for cloud services.
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Cryptopolitan on MSNCoreWeave to provide compute power in Google’s cloud deal with OpenAICoreWeave, which sells computing services built on Nvidia’s graphics processing units, will provide computing capacity to Google’s cloud unit, according to sources familiar with the matter. The sources also said Google will then sell that computing capacity to OpenAI to meet the growing demand for services like ChatGPT.
OpenAI has quietly inked a deal with Google to tap its cloud computing infrastructure to deliver AI services, a source familiar with the arrangement confirmed to Axios. Why it matters: The deal, which follows the $500 billion Stargate project with Oracle and SoftBank,
The partnership gives the ChatGPT-maker access to Google's cloud services for training new AI models - and more distance from Microsoft.
The ChatGPT maker has its sights set on disrupting several markets, including search, AI hardware and software as a service, Melius Research analysts said.