‘Google news’ that reportedly made Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang call OpenAI CEO Sam Altman
A single news report about OpenAI testing Google’s AI chips sent Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang scrambling to his phone in June, triggering a call to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman that would reshape their partnership and culminate in one of the tech industry’s largest infrastructure deals.
The June 27 article by The Information, reporting that OpenAI had begun renting Google’s tensor processing units (TPUs) to power ChatGPT, caused “something of a stir” inside Nvidia’s Santa Clara headquarters, according to The Wall Street Journal. Huang immediately reached out to Altman, asking if the report was true and signaling his willingness to revive stalled partnership negotiations.
