Nvidia to Invest $100 Billion into OpenAI and Deploy 10 Gigawatts of Systems to Power Infrastructure

Nvidia and OpenAI formed a strategic partnership, with Nvidia planning on investing $100 billion into OpenAI. In addition to this substantial investment, Nvidia is deploying at least 10 gigawatts of Nvidia systems, which will serve as AI datacenters, “representing millions of GPUs for OpenAI’s next-generation AI infrastructure.’ The first gigawatt is expected to go online during the second half of 2026. 

The strategic partnership is marketed to help train OpenAI and run its future models, providing hardware support for future OpenAI infrastructure. This is a continued partnership between the two companies. Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia, proclaims the investment and partnership as the next leap forward in powering the next era of intelligence. 

Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, also provided a statement, in which he claims the compute infrastructure will be the basis of the future economy. OpenAI and Nvidia, according to the official partnership public statement, will “work together to co-optimize their roadmaps for OpenAI’s model and infrastructure software and NVIDIA’s hardware and software.”

This is a continued investment strategy from Nvidia, which previously invested $5 billion into Intel. Both investments were AI-focused, with Nvidia pouring financial resources into evolving and furthering AI technologies.