AI company OpenAI and chipmaker Nvidia have agreed to work together on a plan to deploy 10 gigawatts of computing power, a move both companies say will support the training and operation of OpenAI’s future artificial intelligence models.
The two firms signed a letter of intent that makes Nvidia as OpenAI’s preferred partner for compute and networking. The rollout will include new data center and power facilities, with the first phase expected to be operational in the second half of 2026 on Nvidia’s Vera Rubin platform.
As part of the plan, Nvidia said it intends to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI to support the deployment of its systems.
“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.”
“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,” said Sam Altman, cofounder and CEO of OpenAI.
“We’ve utilized 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,” said Greg Brockman, cofounder and president of OpenAI.
The announcement comes as OpenAI reports more than 700 million weekly active users across its products, with adoption from enterprises, small businesses, and developers. The partnership also builds on the companies’ existing collaborations with Microsoft, Oracle, SoftBank, and Stargate partners to expand AI infrastructure.