Nvidia’s $100 Billion Bet on OpenAI: Inside the 10 Gigawatt AI Supercomputer Alliance
On September 22, 2025, OpenAI and Nvidia announced an unprecedented strategic partnership to build out a massive new AI computing infrastructure openai.com. Under a letter of intent, Nvidia will supply OpenAI with at least 10 GW worth of AI systems – powered by its latest GPUs – and invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI as these data centers come online openai.com. The goal is to dramatically expand OpenAI’s capacity to train and deploy advanced AI models, including future iterations of GPT and other AI systems “on the path to deploying superintelligence” openai.com. In practical terms, 10 GW of computing is enormous: on the order of millions of AI chips and equivalent to the output of about ten large power plants techcrunch.com. “Nvidia and OpenAI have pushed each other for a decade… This investment and infrastructure partnership mark the next leap forward – deploying 10 gigawatts to power the next era of intelligence,” said Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang openai.com. Financially, the deal is structured as a two-pronged arrangement. OpenAI will purchase Nvidia hardware with cash, and Nvidia in turn will take a non-controlling equity stake in OpenAI by investing portions of that cash back reuters.com reuters.com. The companies plan to