Report: OpenAI Plans to Formally Adopt Google TPUs, Recruiting Engineers for Model Adaptation
Foreign media outlet The Information reports that OpenAI plans to formally adopt Google Cloud's TPU AI ASIC chips and has been recruiting engineers to lead model adaptation and optimization work on TPUs; people familiar with the matter say it plans to purchase Google TPUs. Google TPUs once played an important role in OpenAI's early startup days, after which its compute shifted to NVIDIA, and it has successively purchased chips from AMD, Cerebras, AWS and others, while also developing its own Jalapeño. OpenAI said in July 2025 that it was conducting early testing of Google TPUs and had no plans for large-scale deployment for the time being.
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Report: OpenAI plans to officially adopt Google TPUs; already recruiting engineers to lead model adaptation and optimization
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Job postings show that OpenAI is looking for an engineer to lead the adaptation and optimization of the company's models on TPUs. People familiar with the matter said OpenAI plans to purchase Google TPU chips.
Google TPUs played an important role in OpenAI's early startup days. However, as its business grew, this generative AI services company gradually shifted to NVIDIA compute, later purchasing chips from AMD, Cerebras, AWS and others, and is also developing its own Jalapeño.
OpenAI said in July 2025 that it was then conducting early testing of Google TPUs and had no plans for large-scale deployment. But that was already 5 quarters ago.