OpenAI and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) have reached a landmark agreement that will see OpenAI using 6 gigawatts to power its artificial intelligence systems. According to CNBC, the agreement may see OpenAI take a 10% stake in AMD.
“We are thrilled to partner with OpenAI to deliver AI compute at massive scale,” said Dr. Lisa Su, Chair and CEO of AMD. “This partnership brings the best of AMD and OpenAI together to create a true win-win enabling the world’s most ambitious AI buildout and advancing the entire AI ecosystem.”
“This partnership is a major step in building the compute capacity needed to realize AI’s full potential,” added Sam Altman, co-founder and CEO of OpenAI. “AMD’s leadership in high-performance chips will enable us to accelerate progress and bring the benefits of advanced AI to everyone faster.”
The deal follows OpenAI partnering with Nvidia in a $100 billion deal for the use of “at least 10 gigawatts of NVIDIA systems for OpenAI’s next-generation AI infrastructure to train and run its next generation of models on the path to deploying superintelligence,” the tech company said in September.
OpenAI’s agreements are the latest in a string of partnerships secured in recent months.
In July, OpenAI entered into a strategic partnership with the UK government for the deployment of AI through “justice, defence and security, and education,” the government said at the time. In June, the company was awarded a $200,000,000 contract with the War Department, a move that the agency said will center on the development of “prototype frontier AI capabilities to address critical national security challenges in both warfighting and enterprise domains.”
