July 16 (Reuters) - OpenAI has included Alphabet's

Google Cloud among its suppliers to meet escalating

demands for computing capacity, according to an updated list

published on the ChatGPT maker's website.

The artificial-intelligence giant also relies on services

from Microsoft ( MSFT ), Oracle, and CoreWeave.

The deal with Google, finalized in May after months of

discussions, was first reported by Reuters citing a source in

June.

The arrangement underscores 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 ( MSFT ), including

its high-profile Stargate data center project.

Earlier this year, OpenAI partnered with SoftBank

and Oracle on the $500 billion Stargate infrastructure program

and signed multi-billion-dollar agreements with CoreWeave to

bolster computing capacity.

The partnership with Google is the latest of several

maneuvers made by OpenAI to reduce its dependency on Microsoft ( MSFT )

whose Azure cloud service had served as the ChatGPT maker's

exclusive data center infrastructure provider until January.

Google and OpenAI discussed an arrangement for months but

were previously blocked from signing a deal due to OpenAI's

lock-in with Microsoft ( MSFT ), a source had told Reuters.