Africa-Press – Eritrea. US chip giant Nvidia announced Monday that it plans to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI as part of its artificial intelligence (AI) lab’s plan to construct data centers worth hundreds of billions of dollars using its AI processors.
The two companies said that OpenAI will develop at least 10 gigawatts of AI data centers with Nvidia systems representing millions of graphics processing units (GPUs). The largest clusters of AI processors are increasingly being described in terms of power, known as gigawatts.
The initial part of the investment, according to the firms, would use Nvidia’s next-generation Vera Rubin systems and go live in the second half of 2026.
Nvidia is joining a group of investors that just raised $500 billion for OpenAI in a secondary round. OpenAI has a strategic agreement with Microsoft, one of its original investors, to include OpenAI models in Microsoft Office and Azure, its cloud service. Additional OpenAI investors are Thrive Capital and SoftBank.
The collaboration would enhance the infrastructure work they are undertaking with SoftBank, Microsoft, Oracle, and their Stargate project, the firms said.
“NVIDIA and OpenAI have pushed each other for a decade, from the first DGX supercomputer to the breakthrough of ChatGPT,” said Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s CEO. “This investment and infrastructure partnership mark the next leap forward — deploying 10 gigawatts to power the next era of intelligence.”
Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, said: “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.”
After the announcement, Nvidia’s shares surged more than 4% to reach an all-time high.
Nvidia has recently pumped up its investments in the AI and chips sector. Last week, Nvidia announced that it acquired a $5 billion stake in the chip firm Intel.
The chip giant also said it invested around $700 million in UK data center startup Nscale.
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