NVIDIA & OpenAI sign deal to build 10 gigawatts of AI data centers
Collaboration will enable the deployment of NVIDIA systems for OpenAI’s next-generation AI infrastructure
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NVIDIA and OpenAI have signed a deal to build at least 10 gigawatts of artificial intelligence (AI) data centers. NVIDIA and OpenAI announced the landmark strategic partnership yesterday.
The collaboration will enable the deployment of a minimum of 10 gigawatts of NVIDIA systems for OpenAI’s AI infrastructure to train and run its next generation of models on the path to deploying superintelligence.
To support the initiative, including data center and power capacity, NVIDIA intends to invest up to US$100 billion in OpenAI as the new NVIDIA systems are deployed. The first phase is targeted to come online in the second half of 2026 using NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin platform.
In July, Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg said the social media giant will spend hundreds of billions of dollars on building huge AI data centers in the US. Meanwhile, recent research from consultancy BCS found that most existing data center facilities aren’t ready for AI-heavy workloads with the sector set for radical transformation.
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The 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 will work with NVIDIA as a preferred strategic compute and networking partner for its AI factory growth plans, according to a press release. OpenAI and NVIDIA will work together to co-optimize their roadmaps for OpenAI's model and infrastructure software and NVIDIA’s hardware and software.
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“NVIDIA and OpenAI have pushed each other for a decade, from the first DGX supercomputer to the breakthrough of ChatGPT,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “This investment and infrastructure partnership mark the next leap forward – deploying 10 gigawatts to power the next era of intelligence.”
Everything starts with compute, added Sam Altman, co-founder and CEO of OpenAI. “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.”
OpenAI has been working closely with NVIDIA since the early days of its inception, said Greg Brockman, co-founder 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.”
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