Oracle To Start Running Google TPUs in Its Cloud

Google and Oracle announced a partnership that will make Google’s tensor processing units available to Oracle cloud customers, the first time the AI chips would be made available on a cloud platform outside of Google’s.

Oracle said in a statement Tuesday the TPUs will be available by 2027.

Built more than a decade ago, Google’s TPUs have become a significant rival for AI compute to Nvidia’s more commonly used graphics processing units. Google, which says its TPUs are more efficient than Nvidia GPUs, began this year selling its chips to third parties, like neocloud providers.

Bringing TPUs to Oracle’s cloud “will give more organizations access to this technology and greater flexibility in how they build and run their most complex AI applications,” Amin Vahdat, senior vice president and chief technologist of AI infrastructure at Google, said in a press release.

Google, which competes with Oracle in the cloud business, has shown increasingly willingness to work with competitors in one part of its business to advance its interest in other areas, such as TPUs. Last week Google agreed to make OpenAI’s models, which compete with its own Gemini models, available to Google cloud customers.