OpenAI signs surprising new deal with Google amid fierce AI competition. Here’s why

OpenAI is planning to use Google’s cloud service in order to meet its need for computing capacity, according to a report by Reuters. The news comes in at a time when OpenAI’s ChatGPT is involved in a cut throat race with Google’s Gemini to take control of the narrative in the AI race.

Reportedly, the deal has been under discussions for a few months but was finalized in May. The move is also one of the several ones taken by OpenAI to reduce its reliance on Microsoft who Azure Cloud infrastructure it had used to serve as ChatGPT’s exclusive data center till January.