OpenAI plans to use Google Cloud to meet Computing Power needs, as the competitive relationship among AI giants escalates.

On June 10, three sources said that OpenAI plans to adopt Google cloud services from Google’s parent company, Alphabet, to meet its growing demand for computing power, marking a surprise collaboration between two well-known competitors in the AI field. The deal, which has been under discussion for months and was finalized in May, highlights how the massive computational demands needed to train and deploy AI models are reshaping the competitive landscape in AI and marks OpenAI’s latest move to diversify computing resources outside of its main backer, Microsoft, including its high-profile StarGate data center project, one source added. Sources say this is a win for Google’s cloud division, which will provide additional computing power to OpenAI’s existing infrastructure to train and run its AI models.