Nvidia and OpenAI in talks for up to $250 billion dollar backstop to fund AI infrastructure plans
OpenAI kickstarted the AI boom with the launch of its ChatGPT chatbot in 2022, and has been racing to secure the computing power it deems necessary to meet future demand for its models and services as it faces heightened competition the likes of Anthropic, Google, Amazon and Meta. Those companies are collectively spending hundreds of billions of dollars on capex to support their own AI infrastructure ambitions. In September, Nvidia said it would invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI as part of a strategic partnership where the company would deploy at least 10 gigawatts of Nvidia systems.
- ▪OpenAI kickstarted the AI boom with the launch of its ChatGPT chatbot in 2022, and has been racing to secure the computing power it deems necessary to meet future demand for its models and services as it faces heightened competition the lik
- ▪Those companies are collectively spending hundreds of billions of dollars on capex to support their own AI infrastructure ambitions.
- ▪In September, Nvidia said it would invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI as part of a strategic partnership where the company would deploy at least 10 gigawatts of Nvidia systems.
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OpenAI kickstarted the AI boom with the launch of its ChatGPT chatbot in 2022, and has been racing to secure the computing power it deems necessary to meet future demand for its models and services as it faces heightened competition the likes of Anthropic, Google, Amazon and Meta. Those companies are collectively spending hundreds of billions of dollars on capex to support their own AI infrastructure ambitions. In September, Nvidia said it would invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI as part of a strategic partnership where the company would deploy at least 10 gigawatts of Nvidia systems. That investment never materialized, though Nvidia contributed $30 billion to the record-breaking funding round that OpenAI closed in March.
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