OpenAI announced a strategic cooperation with NVIDIA to obtain more computing power and financial support on the road to "superintelligence" research and development. According to the agreement announced on Monday, OpenAI will use Nvidia's systems to "build and deploy an AI data center of at least 10 gigawatts of scale," which means millions of GPUs will provide strong power for OpenAI's new models. In addition to building new data centers and expanding computing power, Nvidia also promised to "gradually invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI with the deployment of each gigawatt of scale." Details will be finalized in the coming weeks, the parties said.
OpenAI said Nvidia will be "the strategic computing power and network partner of choice for OpenAI's AI factory growth plan."
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, pointed out in the statement: "Everything starts with the foundation of computing power. Computing infrastructure will become the core of the future economy. We will use our cooperation with NVIDIA to create new AI breakthroughs and empower individuals and enterprises at scale." Last week, OpenAI announced that ChatGPT's weekly active users have reached 700 million.
This strategic cooperation was reached after Microsoft announced in January this year that it would no longer be the sole computing power supplier of OpenAI. According to the latest arrangement, Microsoft only gets the "first right of refusal" for relevant cooperation. Since then, OpenAI has begun to build its own data centers and launched a US$300 billion cloud computing cooperation with Oracle. The two parties also signed a "non-binding memorandum of understanding" earlier this month and said they are actively advancing the signing of contract terms.
Microsoft has previously invested more than $13 billion in OpenAI, but the partnership between the two parties is being adjusted with the development of OpenAI. It is reported that the two parties had differences over the "AGI clause" in the agreement, which stipulates that once OpenAI achieves AGI (that is, AI that matches or exceeds human intelligence), Microsoft will be excluded from profit distribution.