June 30 - 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.

Google declined to comment.

While it is common for AI labs to test out different chips,

using new hardware at scale could take much longer and would

require different architecture and software support. OpenAI is

actively using Nvidia's graphics processing units (GPUs), and

AMD's AI chips to power its growing demand. OpenAI is

also developing its chip, an effort that is on track to meet the

"tape-out" milestone this year, where the chip's design is

finalized and sent for manufacturing.

OpenAI has signed up for Google Cloud service to meet its

growing needs for computing capacity, Reuters had exclusively

reported earlier this month, marking a surprising collaboration

between two prominent competitors in the AI sector. Most of the

computing power used by OpenAI would be from GPU servers powered

by the so-called neocloud company CoreWeave ( CRWV ).

Google has been expanding the external availability of its

in-house AI chips, or TPUs, which were historically reserved for

internal use. That helped Google win customers, including Big

Tech player Apple ( AAPL ), as well as startups like Anthropic

and Safe Superintelligence, two ChatGPT-maker competitors

launched by former OpenAI leaders.