Nvidia Secures $100B OpenAI Partnership to Power the Next Era of AI

The tech giants intend to bring at least 10 gigawatts of AI capacity online, starting in H2 2026 with Vera Rubin chips.

Nvidia and OpenAI have inked a letter of intent for a massive deal worth up to $100 billion that locks in OpenAI as a customer of Nvidia’s most advanced chips over an unspecified period of time.

“Everything starts with compute,” said Sam Altman, cofounder and CEO of OpenAI, in a press release. “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.”

Companies agree on 10 gigawatts of AI capacity rolled out ‘progressively’

The deal will unlock at least 10 ...