OpenAI has agreed to purchase 10 gigawatts of computer chips from US semiconductor giant Broadcom, the latest in a string of deals by the artificial intelligence start-up worth hundreds of billions of dollars.
The mammoth chip order means OpenAI could spend another $350bn to $500bn on top of the roughly $1tn of chip and data centre deals it has signed in recent months as it races to secure the computing power to run services such as ChatGPT.
In September, OpenAI agreed to buy chips with a total power consumption of 10GW from Nvidia, and last week announced it would buy a further 6GW of chips from rival chip designer AMD. OpenAI also recently struck a data centre deal with Oracle that will cost $300bn over five years.