A meeting between OpenAI President Greg Brockman, Nvidia Founder and CEO Jensen Huang, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. “Everything starts with compute,” said Sam Altman, cofounder and CEO of OpenAI, in a press release. Ten gigawatts is equivalent to between 4 million and 5 million GPUs, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told CNBC on Monday. While OpenAI has used Nvidia’s advanced chips for a decade, the new deal places Nvidia as a formal “preferred strategic compute and networking partner” to the AI darling. “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, in the press release.