NVIDIA and OpenAI Announce Historic $100 Billion AI Infrastructure Partnership
SAN FRANCISCO - September 9, 2024 – NVIDIA and openai today announced a groundbreaking partnership to build a massive, next-generation AI infrastructure, representing the largest AI infrastructure deployment in history. the collaboration will see NVIDIA provide OpenAI with the computational power needed to scale its rapidly growing user base and deliver increasingly advanced AI capabilities.
OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which reached 100 million users faster than any application in history in 2022, now boasts over 700 million weekly active users.The company is focused on expanding its offerings to include agentic AI,AI reasoning,multimodal data support,and longer context windows.
The partnership aims to address the escalating demands for both AI training and inference. “The cost per unit of intelligence will keep falling and falling and falling, and we think that’s great,” said OpenAI CEO Sam altman.”But on the other side,the frontier of AI,maximum intellectual capability,is going up and up. And that enables more and more use – and a lot of it.” Altman emphasized the need for increased computational resources to avoid limiting impactful AI applications, stating, “No one wants to make the choice” between critical uses like cancer research and free education.
the initial phase will involve the deployment of the first gigawatt of NVIDIA systems built with NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPUs, expected to generate their first tokens in the second half of 2026. This represents a billion times more computational power than the first NVIDIA DGX system hand-delivered to OpenAI by NVIDIA CEO jensen Huang in 2016.
“This is a billion times more computational power than that initial server,” said OpenAI President Greg brockman. “We’re able to actually create new breakthroughs, new models…to empower every individual and business as we’ll be able to reach the next level of scale.”
Huang envisions a future where intelligence is integrated into every application, use case, and device.”We’re literally going to connect intelligence to every application, to every use case, to every device – and we’re just at the beginning,” he said. “This is the first 10 gigawatts, I assure you of that.”
The project represents a $100 billion investment.
