By The Related Press
Chipmaker Nvidia will make investments $100 billion in OpenAI as a part of a partnership introduced Monday that may add at the very least 10 gigawatts of Nvidia AI information facilities to ramp up the computing energy for the proprietor of the bogus intelligence chatbot ChatGPT.
Per the letter of intent signed by the businesses, the primary gigawatt of Nvidia techniques might be deployed within the second half of 2026. Nvidia and OpenAI mentioned they might be finalizing the main points of the association within the coming weeks.
“This 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,” the businesses mentioned in a launch.
The Nvidia-OpenAI partnership comes about 10 days after OpenAI mentioned it had reached a brand new tentative settlement that may give Microsoft a $100 billion fairness stake in its for-profit company. OpenAI is technically managed by its nonprofit.
OpenAI was based as a nonprofit in 2015 and its nonprofit board has continued to manage the for-profit subsidiary that now develops and sells its AI merchandise.
OpenAI’s company construction and nonprofit mission are the topic of a lawsuit introduced by Elon Musk, who helped discovered the nonprofit analysis lab and supplied preliminary funding. Musk’s go well with seeks to cease OpenAI from taking management of the corporate away from its nonprofit and alleges it has betrayed its promise to develop AI for the advantage of humanity.
Earlier this month, the attorneys basic of California and Delaware warned OpenAI that they’ve “serious concerns” concerning the security of ChatGPT, particularly for youngsters and youths.
The 2 state officers, who’ve distinctive powers to manage nonprofits equivalent to OpenAI, famous “deeply troubling reports of dangerous interactions between” chatbots and their customers, together with the suicide of 1 younger Californian after he had extended interactions with an OpenAI chatbot. The dad and mom of the 16-year-old California boy, who died in April, sued OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, final month.
OpenAI says it has 700 million weekly energetic customers.
Additionally, simply final week Nvidia introduced that it was investing $5 billion in fellow chipmaker Intel, which has struggled to maintain up with the frenzied demand for synthetic intelligence.
Initially Revealed: September 22, 2025 at 10:55 AM PDT
