Nvidia to invest $100 billion in OpenAI to help expand the ChatGPT maker’s computing power

By The Associated Press Chipmaker Nvidia will invest billion in OpenAI as part of a partnership revealed Monday that will add at least gigawatts of Nvidia AI information centers to ramp up the computing power for the owner of the artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT Related Articles An AI assistant can interpret those lab results for you Insurance company repeatedly denied her health claim then AI delivered success Nvidia to invest billion in struggling rival Intel Parents of teens who died by suicide after AI chatbot interactions to testify to Congress Nvidia violated antimonopoly laws China says Per the letter of intent signed by the companies the first gigawatt of Nvidia systems will be deployed in the second half of Nvidia and OpenAI reported they would be finalizing the details of the arrangement in the coming weeks This partnership complements the deep work OpenAI and Nvidia are already doing with a broad grid of collaborators including Microsoft Oracle SoftBank and Stargate partners focused on building the world s the bulk advanced AI infrastructure the companies commented in a release The Nvidia-OpenAI partnership comes about days after OpenAI disclosed it had reached a new tentative agreement that will give Microsoft a billion equity stake in its for-profit corporation OpenAI is technically controlled by its nonprofit OpenAI was founded as a nonprofit in and its nonprofit board has continued to control the for-profit subsidiary that now develops and sells its AI products OpenAI s corporate structure and nonprofit mission are the subject of a lawsuit brought by Elon Musk who helped revealed the nonprofit research lab and provided initial funding Musk s suit seeks to stop OpenAI from taking control of the company away from its nonprofit and alleges it has betrayed its promise to develop AI for the benefit of humanity Earlier this month the attorneys general of California and Delaware warned OpenAI that they have serious concerns about the safety of ChatGPT especially for children and teens The two state administrators who have unique powers to regulate nonprofits such as OpenAI noted deeply troubling reports of dangerous interactions between chatbots and their users including the suicide of one young Californian after he had prolonged interactions with an OpenAI chatbot The parents of the -year-old California boy who died in April sued OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman last month OpenAI says it has million weekly ongoing users Also just last week Nvidia disclosed that it was investing billion in fellow chipmaker Intel which has struggled to keep up with the frenzied demand for artificial intelligence