OpenAI plans to use chips from AMD

Deal similar to one with its rival, Nvidia

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Lisa Su, CEO of Advanced Micro Devices, left, and Greg Brockman, president of OpenAI, during an interview in San Francisco on Monday.

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Late last month, OpenAl announced a $100 billion agreement to use computer chips from Nvidia, the world’s most valuable publicly traded company.

Now, OpenAl has entered a similar agreement with Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), one of the many chipmakers hoping to challenge Nvidia as the dominant supplier of chips used to power artificial intelligence technologies like OpenAls ChatGPT.

On Monday, OpenAlI said that it would begin using AMD chips in the second half of next year as it builds computer data centres. The new facilities would be separate from the data centres OpenAI has committed to building in Texas, New Mexico, Ohio and an unnamed site in the Midwest.

Over several years, OpenAl plans to deploy enough AMD chips to consume 6 gigawatts of power, an amount that could supply all the households in Massachusetts. As part of its recent agreement with Nvidia, OpenAl agreed to deploy enough chips to consume 10 gigawatts.