OpenAI bets big on AMD with massive investment

OpenAI is staking some of its future on AMD.

In a press release on its website, the company behind ChatGPT and Sora announced a massive partnership with GPU maker AMD. OpenAI will use AMD hardware to create up to six gigawatts of AI infrastructure over the coming years, with one gigawatt rolling out in 2026. In all, this deal could see OpenAI come to own as much as 10 percent of AMD. The exact dollar amounts at play here have not been revealed, but an AMD executive was quoted in the press release as saying the deal would "deliver tens of billions of dollars in revenue" to AMD while scaling up OpenAI's projects.

“This partnership is a major step in building the compute capacity needed to realize AI’s full potential,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in the press release. “AMD’s leadership in high-performance chips will enable us to accelerate progress and bring the benefits of advanced AI to everyone faster.”

This announcement comes just days after OpenAI announced a different deal with Nvidia, the market leader in GPUs and an AMD competitor. That deal would see 10 gigawatts' worth of OpenAI infrastructure built with Nvidia hardware. Per Fortune, that kind of rollout would use as much power as New York City and San Diego combined just to fuel whatever it is Altman and co. are planning to do with AI.

Disclosure: Ziff Davis, Mashable’s parent company, in April filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights in training and operating its AI systems.