OpenAI Plans to Buy Google AI Chips

OpenAI plans to buy artificial intelligence chips from Google as it seeks computing capacity for its AI systems, according to a person familiar with private discussions. The person said final terms were not known. Neither company commented on the reported plan. The chips are Google’s Tensor Processing Units, or TPUs, according to reporting cited by a second account. The plan has not been confirmed by either company, and no price, purchase volume or other deal terms have been disclosed. The reported move would add Google hardware to OpenAI’s efforts to secure computing resources for developing and running AI models. OpenAI has also announced plans to begin using its own chips later in 2026. Those chips, called Jalapeno, are being developed with Broadcom, according to the report. That initiative is distinct from the reported potential purchase from Google. OpenAI has posted jobs seeking engineers to optimize frontier models for Google’s chip architecture, one report said. The same account said OpenAI had recently announced that its frontier models would be available through Google Cloud. Those details point to technical and cloud ties between the companies, but do not establish...