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OpenAI's Bid for Compute Independence: Why It's Building Its Own AI Megafactories

A Texas data center, operated by Crusoe for OpenAI, has just secured an additional $11.6 billion in funding, bringing the total committed to this single project to $15 billion. For OpenAI, this massive financial commitment isn’t just about scaling up; it’s a strategic move to reduce the
OpenAI's Bid for Compute Independence: Why It's Building Its Own AI Megafactories

The Cost of AI Compute: Google’s TPU Advantage vs. OpenAI’s Nvidia Tax

Earlier this month, Google’s DeepMind AI research unit unveiled Gemini 2.5 Pro “I/O” edition, quickly hailed by DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis as “the best coding model we’ve ever built!” This new iteration of its Gemini 2.5 Pro has, for the first time in the generative
The Cost of AI Compute: Google’s TPU Advantage vs. OpenAI’s Nvidia Tax