OpenAI co-founder and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever's new AI startup, Safe Superintelligence (SSI), is leveraging Google Cloud's TPU chips for its AI research, as part of a strategic partnership announced recently. This deal highlights the increasing demand among AI unicorn startups for computing power, with SSI expected to allocate a significant portion of its computing budget to Google Cloud.
The collaboration underlines Google's ongoing strategy of partnering with its former AI researchers, including other major deals like with World Labs founded by Fei-Fei Li. The move signals Google's deep involvement in enabling next-generation AI development while competing for dominance in the cloud computing space.

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