OpenAI and NVIDIA revealed a landmark strategic partnership aimed at deploying at least 10 gigawatts of NVIDIA systems to power OpenAI’s next-generation AI infrastructure. This deployment will support the training and operation of advanced AI models, laying the groundwork for the future path toward superintelligence. To facilitate the initiative, including data center and power capacity expansion, NVIDIA plans to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI as the new systems come online. The first phase of deployment is expected in the second half of 2026, utilizing NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin platform.
“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.”
“Everything starts with compute,” said Sam Altman, cofounder and CEO of OpenAI. “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.”
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Greg Brockman, cofounder and president of OpenAI, added, “We’ve been working closely with NVIDIA since the early days 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.”
Under the partnership, OpenAI will designate NVIDIA as its preferred strategic compute and networking partner, aligning their roadmaps to co-optimize OpenAI’s AI models and infrastructure software with NVIDIA’s hardware and software solutions.
The collaboration builds on OpenAI and NVIDIA’s existing efforts with a wide network of partners, including Microsoft, Oracle, SoftBank, and Stargate collaborators, all focused on establishing the world’s most advanced AI infrastructure.
With a growing base of over 700 million weekly active users and strong adoption across global enterprises, small businesses, and developers, OpenAI aims to accelerate its mission of developing artificial general intelligence (AGI) that benefits all of humanity.
