Powerhouse semiconductor chip developer Nvidia will invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI to support the ChatGPT parent company’s new AI infrastructure built with Nvidia systems, the two companies announced as part of a partnership Monday.
OpenAI will use Nvidia’s $100 billion gradual investment to fund the development of 10 gigawatts’ worth of artificial intelligence data centers, the infrastructure that powers AI. Each of these OpenAI-built data centers will be equipped with Nvidia systems.
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The companies signed a letter of intent on Monday, inking what they called a “landmark strategic partnership.”
“NVIDIA and OpenAI have pushed each other for a decade, from the first DGX supercomputer to the breakthrough of ChatGPT,” Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang said. “This investment and infrastructure partnership mark the next leap forward — deploying 10 gigawatts to power the next era of intelligence.”
Nvidia’s investment will support the data center development and power capacity, according to the joint press release. The two companies said OpenAI will deploy the first gigawatt of Nvidia systems in its infrastructure toward the end of 2026. The first of the 10 gigawatts will use Nvidia’s Vera Rubin chip platform, which it unveiled in early September.
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“We’ve been working closely with NVIDIA since the early days of OpenAI,” said Greg Brockman, cofounder and president of OpenAI. “We’ve utilized their platform to create AI systems that hundreds of millions of people use every day. We’re excited to deploy 10 gigawatts of compute with NVIDIA to push back the frontier of intelligence and scale the benefits of this technology to everyone.”
The partnership and systems will allow “OpenAI’s next-generation AI infrastructure to train and run its next generation of models on the path to deploying superintelligence,” the companies said. Nvidia and OpenAI said they will finalize details of the partnership in the coming weeks.