Relationships between AI giants begin to shuffle as OpenAI is no longer locked into a deal with Microsoft Azure for cloud services.

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Under the new deal, Google Cloud will provide additional computing capacity to help OpenAI train and run its AI models. For OpenAI, the partnership addresses growing demands for computing power as the company's annual revenue reached $10 billion as of June, according to sources familiar with the matter who spoke to Reuters.

OpenAI's ChatGPT, Sora image generator, and other tools were down Tuesday as the company suffered an outage. Reports of outages spiked early this morning, according to website status tracker Downdetector. By around 8:00 a.m., it had received more than 1,300 reports of outages from users who were unable to access OpenAI's generative AI tools.

Here are some alternatives you can use for now. Have you noticed that ChatGPT is a little less chatty this morning? OpenAI is experiencing a widespread outage Tuesday that's affecting its ChatGPT AI chatbot service.