Nvidia’s AI Empire Unleashed: Mini Supercomputers, Mega-Deals and a Global Chip Arms Race
AI Alliances and Rivalries: OpenAI, xAI, and a $100B Power Play Nvidia’s dominance in AI computing has led to both blockbuster partnerships and fierce competition in recent weeks. The most dramatic development is Nvidia’s sweeping alliance with OpenAI – a deal valued at up to $100 billion that intertwines the leading AI chip supplier with the maker of ChatGPT ts2.tech ts2.tech. Under the agreement, announced late September, Nvidia will take a sizable (non-voting) stake in OpenAI and in return OpenAI commits to buying Nvidia’s cutting-edge GPUs to build out an unprecedented 10 gigawatts of AI supercomputing capacity ts2.tech ts2.tech. “Everything starts