'The next generation of AI will require a diverse range of compute': Oracle deal means Google TPUs are coming to a rival cloud for the first time

Date:
Wed, 28 Oct 2026 13:00:00 +0000

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Oracle is adding Google's TPU 8t and 8i to its cloud offerings in 2027 just months after launch.

FULL STORY ======================================================================Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Threads Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Oracle becomes the first cloud vendor (outside of Google) to sell TPUs TPU 8t and 8i, launched earlier this year, will be added to the platform Google's TPUs are specifically optimized for AI workloads Oracle has confirmed it will be making Google Cloud's TPUs available through its own OCI platform in a bid to expand the range of AI accelerators available to customers. In doing so, customers will be able to choose which hardware they use to train and run AI models.

Announced at the company's annual AI World conference, the partnership gives Oracle's customers access to Google's purpose-built AI accelerators without them having to go through Google Cloud, while also offering another option instead of Nvidia 's GPUs. It marks an important development for Google's hardware, because it's the first time a hyperscaler other than Google Cloud has sold its TPUs. Latest Videos From TechRadar Watch full video here: Oracle becomes the first third-party cloud vendor to sell Google's TPUs Google's Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) are custom-designed chips designed to accelerate machine learning workloads, spanning both model training and AI inference, but unlike general-purpose GPUs, they've been optimized specifically for artificial intelligence.

While Nvidia remains the dominant supplier of AI accelerators, helping it to maintain its position as the world's most valuable company with a market cap of $5.265 trillion, its facing increasing pressure from hyperscalers' own hardware and custom silicon endeavours. You may like Google is launching its AI chips into space Project Suncatcher MVP sports four TPUs and will be delivered by a SpaceX rocket Alibaba brings frontier-scale AI compute to the public cloud in China Amazon is buying 2 million Nvidia GPUs for AWS data center expansion

OCI President Mahesh Thiagarajan explained that "different AI workloads have different compute needs," hence the decision to offer another option to customers.

"The next generation of AI will require a diverse range of compute," Google
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OCI is launching the partnership with Google's eighth-generation TPUs 8t
(for training) and 8i (for inference). Both were launched by Google Cloud earlier this year , and will become available via OCI in 2027. Follow TechRadar on Google News and add us as a preferred source to get our expert news, reviews, and opinion in your feeds.



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