OpenAI and NVIDIA announced a letter of intent for a landmark strategic partnership to deploy at least 10 gigawatts of NVIDIA systems for OpenAI's next-generation AI infrastructure to train and run its next generation of models on the path to deploying superintelligence. To support this deployment including data center and power capacity, NVIDIA intends to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI as the new NVIDIA systems are deployed.
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Strategic partnership to deploy at least 10 gigawatts of NVIDIA systems.
NVIDIA intends to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI progressively per gigawatt deployed.
First gigawatt targeted for second half of 2026 on NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform.
OpenAI has grown to over 700 million weekly active users.
Partnership complements existing work with Microsoft, Oracle, SoftBank, and Stargate partners.
NVIDIA to serve as preferred strategic compute and networking partner.
OpenAI will work with NVIDIA as a preferred strategic compute and networking partner for its AI factory growth plans. OpenAI and NVIDIA will work together to co-optimize their roadmaps for OpenAI's model and infrastructure software and NVIDIA's hardware and software. This partnership complements the deep work OpenAI and NVIDIA are already doing with a broad network of collaborators, including Microsoft, Oracle, SoftBank and Stargate partners, focused on building the world's most advanced AI infrastructure. OpenAI has grown to over 700 million weekly active users and strong adoption across global enterprises, small businesses and developers. This partnership will help OpenAI advance its mission to build artificial general intelligence that benefits all of humanity.
OpenAI has grown to over 700 million weekly active users and strong adoption across global enterprises, small businesses and developers. This partnership will help OpenAI advance its mission to build artificial general intelligence that benefits all of humanity. The compute infrastructure being deployed with NVIDIA will serve as the foundation for both creating new AI breakthroughs and empowering people and businesses with them at scale.
As Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, stated: "NVIDIA and OpenAI have pushed each other for a decade, from the first DGX supercomputer to the breakthrough of ChatGPT. This investment and infrastructure partnership mark the next leap forward — deploying 10 gigawatts to power the next era of intelligence."
Sam Altman, cofounder and CEO of OpenAI, added: "Everything starts with compute. Compute infrastructure will be the basis for the economy of the future, and we will utilize what we're building with NVIDIA to both create new AI breakthroughs and empower people and businesses with them at scale."
Greg Brockman, cofounder and president of OpenAI, said: "We've been working closely with NVIDIA since the early days 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."
NVIDIA and OpenAI look forward to finalizing the details of this new phase of strategic partnership in the coming weeks.
About OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company. Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.
About NVIDIA
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