Nvidia to invest $100 billion in OpenAI to help expand the ChatGPT
maker's computing power
[September 23, 2025] Chipmaker
Nvidia will invest $100 billion in OpenAI as part of a partnership
announced Monday that will add at least 10 gigawatts of Nvidia AI data
centers to ramp up the computing power for the owner of the artificial
intelligence chatbot ChatGPT.
Per the letter of intent signed by the companies, the first gigawatt of
Nvidia systems will be deployed in the second half of 2026. Nvidia and
OpenAI said 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 network of collaborators, including
Microsoft, Oracle, SoftBank and Stargate partners, focused on building
the world’s most advanced AI infrastructure,” the companies said in a
release. Those companies pledged to invest at least $100 billion in
building data centers for OpenAI in January.
The Nvidia-OpenAI partnership also comes about 10 days after OpenAI said
it had reached a new tentative agreement that will give Microsoft a $100
billion equity stake in its for-profit corporation. OpenAI is
technically controlled by its nonprofit.
Speaking on CNBC, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the new data centers that
Nvidia will build are in addition to the previously announced projects.
“Building this infrastructure is critical to everything we want to do,”
Altman said. “Without doing this, we cannot deliver the services people
want. We can’t keep making better models.”
He said both Nvidia and Microsoft are “passive investors,” and OpenAI's
nonprofit and board controls the company.
OpenAI was founded as a nonprofit in 2015 and its nonprofit board has
continued to control the for-profit subsidiary that now develops and
sells its AI products.
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A sign for a Nvidia building is shown in Santa Clara, Calif., May
31, 2023. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
 OpenAI’s corporate structure and
nonprofit mission are the subject of a lawsuit brought by Elon Musk,
who helped found 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 officials, 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 16-year-old
California boy, who died in April, sued OpenAI and its CEO, Sam
Altman, last month.
OpenAI says it has 700 million weekly active users.
Also, just last week Nvidia announced that it was investing $5
billion in fellow chipmaker Intel, which has struggled to keep up
with the frenzied demand for artificial intelligence.
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