Major Outages Impact Google Cloud, OpenAI, More This Week
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Amazon Web Services, Google, OpenAI and Spotify were down on Thursday after a widespread technology outage.A large number of platforms appear to have been impacted, with tens of thousands of users reporting issues on Downdetector.
Relationships between AI giants begin to shuffle as OpenAI is no longer locked into a deal with Microsoft Azure for cloud services.
CoreWeave has emerged as a winner in Google's newly signed partnership with OpenAI, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, in the latest example of the voracious appetite for computing resources in the artificial-intelligence industry and the formation of new alliances to meet them.
Reports revealed that AI rivals Google and OpenAI struck a deal to provide OpenAI with Google’s cloud computing services.
Under the new deal, Google Cloud will provide additional computing capacity to help OpenAI train and run its AI models. For OpenAI, the partnership addresses growing demands for computing power as the company's annual revenue reached $10 billion as of June, according to sources familiar with the matter who spoke to Reuters.
The partnership gives the ChatGPT-maker access to Google's cloud services for training new AI models - and more distance from Microsoft.
OpenAI plans to add Alphabet’s Google cloud service to meet its growing needs for computing capacity, sources tell Reuters.
The tech executive’s held top roles at OpenAI, Salesforce, and Twitter. Learning to embrace opportunity among tough situations—like dealing with Elon Musk—have helped him find success.
OpenAI has reportedly turned to one of its biggest competitors in the AI arms race to support the training of its ChatGPT models.
Many AI developers started their morning amid a Google Cloud outage affecting many of the tools they use to build products.