Landmark Partnership to Deploy 10 Gigawatts of AI Datacenters
NVIDIA has announced a strategic partnership with
OpenAI, planning to invest up to $100 billion as part of a sweeping initiative to build and deploy at least 10 gigawatts of AI datacenters. This move is designed to power
ChatGPT and OpenAI’s next-generation models, enabling advances toward superintelligence.
Investment Details and Deployment Timeline
- NVIDIA’s investment will be made progressively as each gigawatt of AI computing infrastructure is deployed.
- The first gigawatt of NVIDIA systems, scheduled for the second half of 2026, will utilize NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin platform.
- The resulting infrastructure will include millions of NVIDIA GPUs dedicated to powering OpenAI’s large-scale AI workloads.
Leadership Statements on the Future of AI
Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, emphasized the historic significance of the partnership:
“NVIDIA and OpenAI have pushed each other for a decade, from the first DGX supercomputer to the breakthrough of ChatGPT. This investment and infrastructure partnership mark the next leap forward—deploying 10 gigawatts to power the next era of intelligence.”
Sam Altman, co-founder and CEO of OpenAI, underscored compute infrastructure as the new foundation of the future economy:
“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.”
Greg Brockman, co-founder and President of OpenAI, highlighted their longstanding relationship with NVIDIA and their shared commitment to scaling global access to advanced AI tools.
Expanded Network and Strategic Goals
- OpenAI will rely on NVIDIA as its preferred strategic partner for compute and networking needs as it expands its AI factory roadmap.
- Both companies will collaborate to align their hardware, infrastructure software, and model roadmaps.
- The effort complements collaborations with other major tech firms, including Microsoft, Oracle, SoftBank, and the Stargate partners, to construct the world's most advanced AI infrastructure.
Impact and Global Reach
OpenAI has surpassed 700 million weekly active users, demonstrating strong global adoption across enterprises, small businesses, and developers. This ambitious partnership is poised to accelerate OpenAI’s mission to develop artificial general intelligence that benefits all of humanity.
