Sources: Google and Blackstone plan to create an AI cloud company to monetize Google's TPUs to external parties; Blackstone plans to put $5B in the venture (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal : Sources: Google and Blackstone plan to create an AI cloud company to monetize Google's TPUs to external parties; Blackstone plans to put $5B in the venture — Investment firm to put $5 billion toward venture using Google's chips — Alphabet's Google and Blackstone plan to create …

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