India, Sept. 22 -- Nvidia Corp. has agreed to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI to support the building of new data centres, in what is seen as a blockbuster deal to build the world's most advanced AI infrastructure.

The companies at the forefront of the AI overdrive have signed a letter of intent to deploy 10 GW of Nvidia systems for OpenAI's next-generation AI infrastructure, according to a statement on Monday. That will be used train and run models "on the path to deploying super-intelligence".

"Nvidia and OpenAI have pushed each other for a decade, from the first DGX supercomputer to the breakthrough of ChatGPT," Jensen Huang, founder and chief executive of the world's most valued chipmaker, said in the statement.

"This investmen...