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Business customers will now be able to lock in sustained access to computing resources through a new initiative OpenAI unveiled Tuesday called Guaranteed Capacity, designed to support AI products, agents, and workflows over extended periods.
The program is structured around annual tiers — one, two, or three years — and pricing is designed so that longer commitments yield steeper discounts, according to the company. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the program will be available until the current allocation sells out, with plans to offer it again in the future.
"Customers are increasingly asking us for certainty on capacity. As models get better, we expect that the world will be capacity-constrained for some time," Altman wrote in a post on X $TWTR 0.00%. He described the arrangement as a "big win-win," saying it would help OpenAI plan ahead. Altman added that OpenAI will ensure enough capacity remains available for its own products, including ChatGPT and its coding assistant Codex.
Training and running large AI models demands enormous computational resources — what the industry calls compute — and assembling that infrastructure at meaningful scale requires vast capital and is notoriously hard to execute. According to CNBC, OpenAI has told investors it is targeting roughly $600 billion in total compute spending by 2030.
