By Aparna Deb,News18
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Chipmaker Nvidia will invest up to $100 billion in artificial intelligence firm OpenAI under a new strategic agreement, the companies announced on Monday.
The partnership is designed to support the training and deployment of OpenAI’s future models as the company advances toward building superintelligence. The first phase is expected to go live in the second half of 2026 on Nvidia’s Vera Rubin platform.
“Nvidia and OpenAI have pushed each other for a decade, from the first DGX supercomputer to the breakthrough of ChatGPT,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia. “This investment and infrastructure partnership mark the next leap forward — deploying 10 gigawatts to power the next era of intelligence.”
OpenAI cofounder and CEO Sam Altman emphasized the centrality of compute power: “Compute infrastructure will be the basis for the economy of the future, and we will use what we’re building with Nvidia to deliver new AI breakthroughs and empower people and businesses at scale.”
Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s cofounder and president, added that the collaboration would expand on years of joint work: “We’ve been working closely with Nvidia since the early days of OpenAI. We’re excited to deploy 10 gigawatts of compute with Nvidia to push the frontier of intelligence and scale the benefits of this technology to everyone.”
As part of the deal, Nvidia will become OpenAI’s preferred strategic compute and networking partner for its AI factory expansion. The two firms will align their hardware and software roadmaps to co-optimize performance and scalability.
The partnership builds on OpenAI’s existing collaborations with Microsoft, Oracle, SoftBank, and Stargate, all aimed at creating the world’s most advanced AI infrastructure.
With more than 700 million weekly active users globally, OpenAI said the expanded partnership with Nvidia will accelerate its mission to build artificial general intelligence that benefits humanity. The companies expect to finalize details of the agreement in the coming weeks.