OpenAI Nears $500 Billion Data Center Deal With Nvidia

OpenAI is close to finalizing a massive data center project backed by Nvidia.

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Jul 28: OpenAI Nears $500 Billion Data Center Deal With Nvidia

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What happened

OpenAI is close to securing a $500 billion data center project. Chipmaker Nvidia is backing the effort. The report indicates a major push to build out infrastructure for future AI training.

The context

Leading AI labs face severe bottlenecks in compute power and power supplies. Securing huge data centers ensures the infrastructure needed to build larger and more capable models.

Sources

The New York Times ↗ via Google News Reported

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