Nvidia to invest up to $100bn in OpenAI
Partnership will support huge build-out of data centres for artificial intelligence
Partnership will support huge build-out of data centres for artificial intelligence

If Monday’s deal seems performative, perhaps that’s the point

AI start-up turns to three of its biggest suppliers in blockbuster $100bn funding round

Chipmaker swaps last year’s complex framework with AI start-up in favour of equity cheque

AI start-up commits to buying $30bn in computing capacity from Microsoft in data centres powered by Nvidia chips

Nvidia-backed AI cloud group secures huge new contract as chief executive eyes public listing in ‘back end of next year’

Symbolic investment is aimed at showing the two companies are aligned — and is so small shareholders won’t care