OpenAI and NVIDIA have announced a strategic partnership to deploy at least 10 gigawatts of NVIDIA systems, representing millions of GPUs, to power OpenAI’s next-generation AI infrastructure and accelerate the development of advanced AI models. NVIDIA plans to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI progressively as each gigawatt of systems is deployed, with the first gigawatt expected to come online in the second half of 2026 on the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform.
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“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. Sam Altman, cofounder and CEO of OpenAI, added, “Compute infrastructure will be the basis for the economy of the future, and we will utilize what we’re building with NVIDIA to both create new AI breakthroughs and empower people and businesses with them at scale.”The partnership will see NVIDIA as OpenAI’s preferred strategic compute and networking partner, with both companies co-optimizing hardware, software, and model roadmaps, complementing existing collaborations with Microsoft, Oracle, SoftBank, and other partners to advance AI infrastructure and support OpenAI’s mission to develop beneficial artificial general intelligence.