India, Sept. 23 -- OpenAI and NVIDIA have entered a partnership to deploy at least 10 gigawatts of NVIDIA systems for OpenAI's next-generation AI infrastructure. The agreement includes NVIDIA investing up to USD 100 billion in OpenAI, with the funding tied to the deployment of each gigawatt of systems.

The first gigawatt of computing power is scheduled for deployment in the second half of 2026. This phase will use NVIDIA's Vera Rubin platform, a new microarchitecture for GPUs designed to process large volumes of data. The Vera Rubin platform is built to handle complex AI tasks like software coding and generative video.

The partnership comes as OpenAI seeks to expand its computing capabilities. The company, which reports over 700 million...