After $5bn into Intel, Nvidia invests $100bn in OpenAIOpenAI and Nvidia have agreed to what they say is a landmark strategic partnership to deploy at least 10 gigawatts of Nvidia systems for OpenAI’s next-generation AI infrastructure to train and run its next generation of models on the path to deploying superintelligence. To support this deployment – including data centre and power capacity – Nvidia intends to invest up to $100-billion in OpenAI as the new Nvidia systems are deployed. The first phase is targeted to come online in the second half of 2026 using the Nvidia Vera Rubin platform. “Nvidia and OpenAI have pushed each other for a decade – from the first DGX supercomputer to the breakthrough of ChatGPT,” says Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia. “This investment and infrastructure partnership marks the next leap forward – deploying 10 gigawatts to power the next era of intelligence.”Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, adds: “Everything starts with compute.