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OpenAI, a Longtime Nvidia Customer, Plans to Buy Google’s AI Chips

By Ryan Barwick · Oct 27, 2026 4:59pm PDT · 1 comment
OpenAI plans to buy Google’s AI chips, according to a person familiar with the matter, in a boost for a rising competitor to OpenAI backer Nvidia. Financial terms and other details of OpenAI’s planned purchase couldn’t be learned. But any deal for it to buy tensor processing units would be a big win for Google’s chip business, which is a growing... OpenAI plans to buy Google’s AI chips, according to a person familiar with the matter, in a boost...
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How DeepSeek Is Shaping Huawei’s AI Chips in a Growing Challenge to Nvidia

By Qianer Liu and Juro Osawa · Oct 19, 2026 9:00am PDT
DeepSeek is working closely with Huawei Technologies to shape the design of future AI chips, two people familiar with the matter said, in a collaboration that could help China build frontier AI models without Nvidia’s technology. The relationship goes beyond the kinds of conversations companies have with chip suppliers about their semiconductor... DeepSeek is working closely with Huawei Technologies to shape the design of future AI chips, two...
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China’s ByteDance Developing New AI Chips Like Those from Nvidia Partner Groq

By Qianer Liu and Juro Osawa · May 29, 2026 6:00am PDT · 1 comment
TikTok owner ByteDance is developing a new chip to run artificial intelligence models as part of an aggressive expansion of its homegrown AI infrastructure. The new AI chip is intended to have a structure similar to U.S. chip designer Groq’s language processing units, which are built to run AI models at low cost, according to three people with... TikTok owner ByteDance is developing a new chip to run artificial intelligence models as part of...
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Sex, Lies and AI Chips: Jensen Huang’s Last Days as Nvidia CEO

By Phoebe Liu, Leo Schwartz and Michael Roddan · Nov 12, 2026 9:24pm PST · 6 comments
Last weekend, all hell broke loose around Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. On Friday, his intimate relationship with a suspected Chinese spy was made public. Then Nvidia’s general counsel, Tim Teter, came to Huang’s home and asked him whether a news report about the relationship was true, according to a person briefed on the interaction. Huang told him... Last weekend, all hell broke loose around Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. On Friday, his intimate...
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Apollo Is Vastly Outspending the Neoclouds on AI Chips

By Dakin Campbell · Nov 4, 2026 6:00am PST
Last week, SpaceX’s announcement that it would lease $40 billion worth of Nvidia Vera Rubin chips was a further signal of Elon Musk’s grand ambitions in the AI race. The deal also underscores the arrival of a new big player in that competition: Apollo Global Management, a 36-year-old private-equity pioneer turned private-lending giant. In the... Last week, SpaceX’s announcement that it would lease $40 billion worth of Nvidia Vera Rubin chips...