Nvidia to invest $100bn in OpenAI, firm behind ChatGPT

US tech big Nvidia will make investments as much as $100bn (£73bn) in OpenAI, the agency behind ChatGPT, the businesses introduced.Nvidia stated it can provide high-performance chips wanted for the processing energy required by synthetic intelligence (AI), of which OpenAI is a specialist.Described as a “strategic partnership” by Nvidia, it’s the newest transfer by two excessive profile tech corporations within the international AI race, the place China is an rising rival.The announcement comes after a sequence of high-profile investments by Nvidia, together with a $5bn funding in Intel and a £2bn funding within the UK’s AI sector.Nvidia stated its newest funding will go in direction of rising information centres for OpenAI’s “next-generation AI infrastructure”.Jensen Huang, chief government of Nvidia, stated the funding will mark the “subsequent leap ahead and energy the subsequent period of intelligence”.Each corporations stated they have been already working with a broad community of collaborators centered on making the “world’s most superior AI infrastructure”, together with working with Microsoft, Oracle, SoftBank, and Stargate.OpenAI stated it had over 700 million weekly lively customers, and that its new partnership with Nvidia would “advance its mission to construct synthetic normal intelligence that advantages all of humanity.”It added that the main points can be finalised within the coming weeks.