From The Information: Source: OpenAI, a major Nvidia customer, plans to buy Google's TPUs; a job listing shows it seeks an engineer to “lead the optimization” of its models on TPUs — OpenAI plans to buy Google's AI chips, according to a person familiar with the matter, in a boost for a rising competitor to OpenAI backer…
Nvidia's board says it is launching an independent investigation into whether CEO Jensen Huang was targeted by a foreign spy plot, after Huang admitted an affair in a memo to staff.
How Nvidia uses soft power to influence customers and shape US chip policy; sources: OpenAI took no public stance on China chip exports to avoid angering Nvidia — Last month, OpenAI Senior Research Scientist Noam Brown posted a link in a company Slack channel to a news story …
When talking about local inference, Sam Altman says supply-constrained DRAM is better used in data centers than sitting in PCs and “being used 5% of the time” — With data centers full of RAM, your PC is apparently the problem. … OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has data centers full of memory …
The chipmakers' purchase is part of Meta's planned stock sale of up to $95 billion to fund its data center buildout.
It is the first time Google is supplying its TPUs to another hyperscaler.
