A Historic Alliance: From a Single Server to a Gigawatt Future

Just days after the tech world was rocked by the unprecedented partnership between two long-time rivals, NVIDIA and Intel, a new alliance has emerged that redefines the very future of artificial intelligence. This week, NVIDIA and OpenAI announced a landmark strategic partnership that will see NVIDIA invest up to a staggering $100 billion to supercharge Open AI's next generation AI infrastructure.

The New Industrial Revolution

The scale of this new agreement is nothing short of revolutionary. The partnership is designed to deploy at least 10 gigawatts of NVIDIA systems for OpenAI's data centers. To put that in perspective, a single gigawatt is enough to power several hundred thousand homes. This immense new infrastructure will serve as the foundation for training and running OpenAI's next-generation AI models on the path to deploying superintelligence.

Sam Altman has consistently emphasized that "everything starts with compute." For him, this massive investment is the fuel needed to drive new AI breakthroughs and empower people and businesses on a global scale. This partnership will allow OpenAI to continue building its "AI factories," with NVIDIA serving as its preferred strategic compute and networking partner. The two companies will even co-optimize their development roadmaps, ensuring that OpenAI's software and models are perfectly synchronized with NVIDIA's cutting-edge hardware.

While NVIDIA will invest up to $100 billion to progressively finance the buildout of this infrastructure, the arrangement highlights a critical new phase in the AI arms race. For NVIDIA, it solidifies its dominant position as the architect of the AI age. For OpenAI, it provides the essential computing power needed to achieve its mission of building artificial general intelligence that benefits all of humanity.

A Historic Alliance: From a Single Server to a Gigawatt Future

While the specifics of this new deal are monumental, the relationship between NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is a story that goes back nearly a decade.

Their collaboration is rooted in a shared vision for AI's potential and a mutual respect for each other's work. The physical manifestation of this history began in 2016 when Jensen Huang himself hand-delivered the first-ever NVIDIA DGX-1 system to OpenAI's San Francisco office. It was a simple, yet symbolic, gesture that marked the beginning of a deep and evolving collaboration.

"NVIDIA and OpenAI have pushed each other for a decade, from the first DGX supercomputer to the breakthrough of ChatGPT."
- Jensen Huang, NVIDIA Founder and CEO

Their connection isn't just a business one; it extends to their shared public stances. The two have appeared together in joint interviews, discussing their unified belief that America must attract the world's brightest minds to lead the AI revolution. They are two of the most influential figures in the AI landscape, and their professional history has been a continuous push toward greater computational scale.

The Alliance

This new era of intelligence began with a single act of collaboration almost a decade ago—a moment when Jensen Huang hand-delivered the first DGX server to OpenAI. Today, that trust has evolved into a strategic alliance poised to deploy the compute power of a small nationThis alliance isn't just about business; it's the next leap forward in the relentless pursuit of intelligence, building upon a foundation of collaboration that began with a handshake and a single server.