Nvidia Invests $100 Billion in OpenAI

Nvidia announced that it will invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI as part of a strategic partnership with the aim of deploying at least 10 gigawatts of AI datacenters powered by Nvidia GPUs and OpenAI’s next-generation AI infrastructure.

“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.”

“Everything starts with compute,” OpenAI cofounder and CEO Sam Altman added. “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.”

This investment dwarfs the $5 billion that Nvidia is flushing down an Intel-shaped toilet, but it also vastly outstrips the $13 billion that Microsoft has invested in OpenAI in its mad push to remain relevant in this new era. But it’s not the biggest deal OpenAI, which now touts over 700 million monthly active users, has done: The AI startup announced a $500 billion investment in partnership with Oracle and Softbank this past January that also seeks to deploy 10 gigawatts of AI capacity.