Google (GOOGL), seeking to expand the market for its AI chips by increasing financial support to data-center partners to compete with Nvidia (NVDA), is in talks to invest $100M in cloud startup Fluidstack, part of a deal that values it at $7.5B, and supports other data-center partners, The Wall Street Journal’s Raffaele Huang, Kate Clark, and Berber Jin report. Some managers at Google’s cloud-computing division recently refreshed a longstanding internal debate about restructuring the TPU team into a standalone unit, people familiar with the discussions say, adding that a potential challenge is that Google’s cloud business relies heavily on Nvidia chips.
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