OpenAI, NVIDIA announce $100 billion partnership to deploy 10 GW of AI data centers

OpenAI and NVIDIA on Monday (September 22) announced a letter of intent for a strategic partnership to deploy at least 10 gigawatts (GW) of NVIDIA systems for OpenAI’s next-generation AI infrastructure. The deployment will power OpenAI’s efforts to train and run its next generation of models on the path to deploying superintelligence.

To support the partnership, NVIDIA intends to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI progressively as each gigawatt is deployed. The systems represent millions of GPUs to be used in AI data centers built by OpenAI. The first gigawatt of NVIDIA systems is scheduled for deployment in the second half of 2026, running on the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform.

According to the companies, the strategic partnership will enable the building and deployment of advanced AI data centers, forming the backbone of OpenAI’s future AI infrastructure.

"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."

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"Everything starts with compute," said Sam Altman, cofounder and CEO of OpenAI. "Compute infrastructure will be the basis for the economy of the future, and we will utilise what we are building with NVIDIA to both create new AI breakthroughs and empower people and businesses with them at scale."

"We have been working closely with NVIDIA since the early days of OpenAI," said Greg Brockman, cofounder and president of OpenAI. "We have utilised their platform to create AI systems that hundreds of millions of people use every day. We’re excited to deploy 10 gigawatts of compute with NVIDIA to push back the frontier of intelligence and scale the benefits of this technology to everyone."

OpenAI will work with NVIDIA as a preferred strategic compute and networking partner for its AI factory growth plans. OpenAI and NVIDIA will work together to co-optimise their roadmaps for OpenAI’s model and infrastructure software and NVIDIA’s hardware and software.

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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.

OpenAI has grown to over 700 million weekly active users and strong adoption across global enterprises, small businesses and developers. This partnership will help OpenAI advance its mission to build artificial general intelligence that benefits all of humanity.