PichaiCEO Sundar Pichai on Google Cloud’s OpenAI partnership: 'With respect to OpenAI, look..

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has said that he is ‘excited’ about a new partnership that sees the search giant supplying cloud computing resources to Microsoft-backed OpenAI, one of its competitors in the artificial intelligence (AI) space.

The comments came during Google's second-quarter earnings call, where Pichai addressed analyst questions about the company’s aggressive AI investments after reporting strong results in Alphabet’s first quarter 2025.

“With respect to OpenAI, look, we are very excited to be partnering with them on Google Cloud,” Pichai stated.

“So super excited about our partnership there on the cloud side, and we look forward to investing more in that relationship and growing that,” he added