Google’s Own AI Researchers Jockey for Access to Its Computing

The Google AI Center in Berlin.

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In the race to build the infrastructure that powers artificial intelligence, Alphabet Inc.’s Google has an enviable position: The company has a healthy cloud computing business, makes its own chips, and has struck deals to share them with companies like Anthropic PBC and Meta Platforms Inc.

Google’s success has made its computing resources so valuable, though, that its own AI researchers have to get in line.