OpenAI taps Google in a new Cloud deal for more compute - Sources. $GOOGL

Three sources said that OpenAI intends to use Alphabet's Google cloud service to meet its growing computing capacity needs, marking an unexpected collaboration between two prominent competitors in the artificial intelligence sector.

According to one of the sources, the deal was finalized in May after being discussed for a few months. It emphasizes how massive computing demands to train and deploy AI models are reshaping the competitive dynamics in AI, and marks OpenAI's latest move to diversify its compute sources beyond its major supporter, Microsoft, including its high-profile Stargate data center project.