OpenAI has gained a new hardware partner.
The AI Institute announced Monday that it has partnered with semiconductor company Broadcom on 10 gigawatts worth of custom AI accelerator hardware. These AI accelerator racks will be deployed in OpenAI data centers and partner data centers from 2026 to 2029.
“By designing our own chips and systems, OpenAI is able to incorporate learnings from the development of frontier models and products directly into the hardware, enabling new levels of functionality and intelligence,” the company said in a press release.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the Financial Times estimated that OpenAI could cost an estimated $350 billion to $500 billion.
This is just OpenAI’s latest infrastructure deal in recent weeks.
OpenAI announced last week that it would buy an additional 6 gigawatts of chips from AMD in a deal worth tens of billions of dollars. In September, Nvidia announced it would invest $100 billion in OpenAI, with a letter of intent for OpenAI to utilize 10 gigawatts worth of Nvidia hardware.
OpenAI also reportedly signed a historic $300 billion cloud infrastructure deal with Oracle in September. Neither company has confirmed the deal.
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