OpenAI Says It Has No Plan To Use Google's In-house Chip

An anonymous reader shares a report: OpenAI said it has no active plans to use Google's in-house chip to power its products, two days after Reuters and other news outlets reported on the AI lab's move to turn to its competitor's artificial intelligence chips to meet growing demand.

A spokesperson for OpenAI said on Sunday that while the AI lab is in early testing with some of Google's tensor processing units (TPUs), it has no plans to deploy them at scale right now.

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[jdawgnoonan]

So far Google's Tensor chips have mainly shown that they are underperformers since no Pixel phone has ever had benchmarks on par with the best of the competition.

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[larryjoe]

So far Google's Tensor chips have mainly shown that they are underperformers since no Pixel phone has ever had benchmarks on par with the best of the competition.

The Tensor SoC chip is very different from the TPU. Totally different architecture and different target domain.