Nvidia will invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI as the artificial intelligence lab sets out to build hundreds of billions of dollars in data centers.

Nvidia is investing up to $100 billion in OpenAI, creating a powerful alliance in the ballooning AI economy.

In an interview with CNBC, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said his company's project with OpenAI is equivalent to between 4 million and 5 million GPUs.