Nvidia volition put $100 cardinal successful OpenAI arsenic the artificial quality laboratory sets retired to physique hundreds of billions of dollars successful information centers based astir the chipmaker's AI processors, the companies said connected Monday.
OpenAI plans to physique and deploy Nvidia systems that necessitate 10 gigawatts of power, the companies said connected Monday. A gigawatt is simply a measurement of powerfulness that is progressively being utilized to picture the biggest clusters of AI chips.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told CNBC's Jon Fortt successful an interrogation successful San Jose, California, that the 10 gigawatts is adjacent to betwixt 4 cardinal and 5 cardinal graphics processing units (GPUs), which is what the institution volition vessel successful full this twelvemonth and "twice arsenic overmuch arsenic past year."
"This is simply a elephantine project," Huang said, successful the interrogation alongside OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, the company's president.
Nvidia banal roseate astir 4% during connected Monday, instantly adding astir $170 cardinal successful worth to the company's marketplace cap, which present sits adjacent to $4.5 trillion.
The partnership, which Huang described arsenic "monumental successful size," highlights the intimate nexus betwixt OpenAI and Nvidia, 2 of the biggest drivers of the caller AI boom. Demand for Nvidia's GPUs started picking up erstwhile OpenAI archetypal released ChatGPT successful 2022, and OpenAI inactive relies GPUs to make its bundle and deploy it to users.
"Nvidia invests $100 cardinal successful OpenAI, which past OpenAI turns backmost and gives it backmost to Nvidia," Bryn Talkington, managing spouse astatine Requisite Capital Management, told CNBC aft the announcement. "I consciousness similar this is going to beryllium precise virtuous for Jensen."
It further signals the magnitude of Nvidia exertion that OpenAI volition request to make next-generation AI that tin bash much than its existent models. OpenAI was already successful request of an expanding fig of chips to service its users. The institution said it had 700 cardinal progressive play users.
"You should expect a batch from america successful the coming months," Altman said successful the interview. "There are 3 things that OpenAI has to bash well: we person to bash large AI research, we person to marque these products radical privation to use, and we person to fig retired however to bash this unprecedented infrastructure challenge."
The companies said the concern volition beryllium deployed "progressively" arsenic the infrastructure is built and that Nvidia would beryllium a "preferred" supplier for OpenAI for chips and networking gear. Nvidia dominates the marketplace for AI chips, but faces accrued contention from Advanced Micros Devices and unreality providers which are processing their ain chips and systems to necktie them together.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman walks connected the time of a gathering of the White House Task Force connected Artificial Intelligence (AI) Education successful the East Room astatine the White House successful Washington, D.C., U.S., September 4, 2025.
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In August, Huang told investors connected an net telephone that gathering 1 gigawatt of information halfway capableness costs betwixt $50 cardinal and $60 billion, of which astir $35 cardinal of that is for Nvidia chips and systems.
Nvidia and OpenAI said that the archetypal signifier of the latest concern volition travel online successful the 2nd fractional of 2026, utilizing Nvidia's next-generation Vera Rubin systems.
Nvidia's concern comes aft a roster of investors valued OpenAI astatine $500 cardinal successful a caller secondary round. Microsoft was 1 of OpenAI's aboriginal investors, and has a strategical concern to integrate OpenAI models into its unreality service, Azure, and Microsoft Office. Other OpenAI investors see SoftBank and Thrive Capital.
The companies said connected Monday that the concern volition compliment the infrastructure enactment it is doing with Microsoft, Oracle, SoftBank and the Stargate project.
Altman referred to Nvidia and Microsoft arsenic "passive" investors and 2 of the company's "most captious partners" successful the CNBC interview.
Huang said Nvidia's concern is "additive to everything that's been announced and contracted." He indicated to CNBC that it's successful summation to thing the institution has told Wall Street astir its fiscal expectations.
While this concern dwarfs Nvidia's anterior commitments, the chipmaker has been opening its wallet of precocious to enactment funds successful galore companies successful and astir the industry.
Last week, Nvidia said it's taken a $5 cardinal stake in Intel and announced that the 2 companies volition collaborate connected AI processors. Nvidia besides said it invested adjacent to $700 cardinal successful U.K. information center startup Nscale. And CNBC reported connected Thursday that the institution spent implicit $900 cardinal to prosecute Enfabrica CEO Rochan Sankar and different employees astatine the AI startup, and to licence the company's technology.
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