Google 和 Oracle 宣布建立合作伙伴关系，将 Google 的张量处理单元 (TPU) 提供给 Oracle 云客户使用，这是该 AI 芯片首次在 Google 自身云平台之外的云平台上提供。
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 周二在一份声明中表示，TPU 将于 2027 年上线。
Oracle said in a statement Tuesday the TPUs will be available by 2027.
Google 的 TPU 诞生于十多年前，已成为 Nvidia 更常用的图形处理单元 (GPU) 在 AI 算力方面的重要竞争对手。Google 称其 TPU 比 Nvidia GPU 更高效，今年开始向第三方（如新型云服务商）出售该芯片。
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.
Google AI 基础设施高级副总裁兼首席技术官 Amin Vahdat 在新闻稿中表示：“将 TPU 引入 Oracle 云将让更多组织获得这项技术，并在构建和运行其最复杂的 AI 应用时拥有更大的灵活性。”
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 在云业务上与 Oracle 竞争，但已表现出越来越强的意愿，在业务的某一领域与竞争对手合作，以推进其在其他领域（如 TPU）的利益。上周 Google 同意让竞争其自家 Gemini 模型的 OpenAI 模型在 Google 云上可供客户使用。
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.