Nvidia to invest in OpenAI for data centers

Nvidia plans to invest $100 billion in OpenAI, giving the ChatGPT maker a huge war chest to build data centers with the chip maker's chips.

- NILESH CHRISTOPHER

JENSEN HUANG, chief executive of Nvidia, speaks during a news conference in Berkeley.

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OpenAI will gain access to millions of Nvidia chips in the coming years.

“Everything starts with compute,” Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAl, said in a joint news release. “Compute infrastructure willbe the basis for the economy ofthe future, and we will utilize what we're building with Nvidia to both create new AI breakthroughs and empower people and businesses.”

For OpenAl, the $100-bil-lion investment will trickle in progressively as each gigawatt of the 10 planned gigawatts of power needed for the data centersis deployed. The first gigawatt data center is scheduled to go online inthe second half of 2026.

“This investment and infrastructure partnership mark the next leap forward — deploying 10 gigawatts to power the next era of intelligence,” Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia, said in a news release.