Openai has flipped some stones in the race to build computing power for its AI efforts.
The ChatGpt manufacturer on Wednesday created Dram Wafers for the Stargate AI Infrastructure Project and said it had agreed with two biggest manufacturers, Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, the world’s largest memory chips, to build a data center in Korea.
The company signed a meeting in Seoul and a meeting between Open Tribe CEO Sam Altman, South Korean President Lee Jae Myung, chairman of Samsung Electronics executive Jay Y. Lee, and SK Chairman Choi Tae Won.
Under the agreement, Samsung and SK Hynix plan to expand their production to produce up to 900,000 high-bandwidth DRAM memory chips per month for use in Stargate and AI data centers. SK Group noted in a separate statement that this would be more than twice the current industry capacity of high-bandwidth memory chips.
Stargate is a large infrastructure project from Openai, Oracle and SoftBank, aiming to spend $500 billion to build a data center dedicated to AI development in the US.
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Wednesday’s contract followed a month’s enthusiastic investment in AI’s computing power, and Openai was a lot of its activities. Just a few weeks ago, Nvidia said it would invest up to $100 billion in Openai as part of a deal that would allow ChatGPT makers to access 10 gigawatts of computing power through Nvidia’s AI training system. The next day, Openai said it was aiming to build five data centers with SoftBank and Oracle for the Stargate project, increasing its total computational capacity to 7 gigawatts.
At the beginning of September, Oracle agreed to sell $300 billion in computing power to OpenaI over five years.
Openai also said it was to work with the South Korean Ministry of Science and ICT to find opportunities to build AI data centres outside of Seoul, and that it had made another transaction to build AI data centres with SK Telecom. The AI company has also signed several other contracts with Samsung’s subsidiary, exploring the path to building more data centers in the country.
As part of the agreement, Samsung and SK Group will integrate ChatGpt Enterprise and Openai API into their businesses.
