OpenAI to use Oracle’s chips for more AI compute
by Jay Peters from The Verge - All Posts on (#6NFZH)
Image: The Verge OpenAI and Microsoft are teaming up with Oracle to get more compute capacity to run ChatGPT. As part of a partnership announced this week, the three companies are working together so that OpenAI can use the Microsoft Azure Al platform on Oracle's infrastructure.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman hasn't shied away from the fact that his company needs substantially more infrastructure to power its services. He has even been in discussions to raise billions of dollars for an AI chip venture. In the press release for the Oracle deal this week, he said Oracle's chips will enable OpenAI to continue to scale."
To date, OpenAI has relied fully on Microsoft for its compute needs. In turn, Microsoft has invested $13 billion for a 49 percent stake in OpenAI's...