Google has confirmed its partnership with OpenAI at its second-quarter earnings call. OpenAI's ChatGPT and API services will adopt Google's cloud platform, with Google data centers in the US, Japan, the Netherlands,

The comment came shortly after analysts peppered Pichai and other Google executives with questions about how AI would affect its core search business and why Google is spending an extra $10 billion on capital expenditures this year to catch up in the AI race.

It’s a partnership that would’ve seemed unthinkable a year ago. OpenAI, the Microsoft-backed research lab behind ChatGPT, has quietly started using Google Cloud to train and serve its AI models. In doing so,