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Comment by ignoramous

16 hours ago

> The only one that doesn't use TPU is OpenAI

For inference? This is from July 2025: OpenAI tests Google TPUs amid rising inference cost concerns, https://www.networkworld.com/article/4015386/openai-tests-go... / https://archive.vn/zhKc4

> ... due to the exclusive deal with Microsoft

This exclusivity went away in Oct 2025 (except for 'API' workloads).

  OpenAI has contracted to purchase an incremental $250B of Azure services, and Microsoft will no longer have a right of first refusal to be OpenAI’s compute provider.

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2025/10/28/the-next-chapter... / https://archive.vn/1eF0V