OpenAI, NVIDIA announce $100 billion partnership to deploy 10 GW of AI data centers

OpenAI and NVIDIA on Monday (September 22) announced a letter of intent for a strategic partnership to deploy at least 10 gigawatts (GW) of NVIDIA systems for OpenAI’s next-generation AI infrastructure. The deployment will power OpenAI’s efforts to train and run its next generation of models on the path to deploying superintelligence.

To support the partnership, NVIDIA intends to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI progressively as each gigawatt is deployed. The systems represent millions of GPUs to be used in AI data centers built by OpenAI. The…