OpenAI Partners with NVIDIA to Deploy its Systems, Collaborates with Databricks to Supercharge Enterprise Agents

OpenAI is in the midst of forming partnerships to further its mission in the AI space. OpenAI and NVIDIA are partnering to deploy 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. 

“NVIDIA and OpenAI have pushed each other for a decade, from the first DGX supercomputer to the breakthrough of ChatGPT,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “This investment and infrastructure partnership mark the next leap forward—deploying 10 gigawatts to power the next era of intelligence.”

To support this deployment, including data center and power capacity, NVIDIA intends to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI as the new NVIDIA systems are deployed. The first phase is targeted to come online in the second half of 2026 using NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin platform, the companies said.

“Everything starts with compute,” said Sam Altman, co-founder and CEO of OpenAI. “Compute infrastructure will be the basis for the economy of the future, and we will utilize what we’re building with NVIDIA to both create new AI breakthroughs and empower people and businesses with them at scale.”

OpenAI will work with NVIDIA as a preferred strategic compute and networking partner for its AI factory growth plans.  OpenAI and NVIDIA will work together to co-optimize their roadmaps for OpenAI's model and infrastructure software and NVIDIA’s hardware and software. 

In addition to this collaboration, Databricks and OpenAI are forming a multi-year partnership to make OpenAI models natively available within the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform and Databricks' flagship AI product Agent Bricks.

OpenAI models will be available to more than 20,000 Databricks customers across clouds. This collaboration unites two of the world's most impactful technology companies, with a $100 million partnership, to deliver frontier AI for enterprises around the world, the vendors said.

 With Agent Bricks, organizations can build, evaluate and scale production-grade AI apps and agents on their governed enterprise data leveraging OpenAI latest models, including GPT-5, featuring state-of-the-art performance across coding, math, writing, and reasoning. Under this partnership, GPT-5 will be a flagship model for all Databricks customers.

"We're seeing overwhelming demand from enterprise customers looking to build AI apps and agents on their data, tailored to their unique business needs," said Ali Ghodsi, co-founder and CEO of Databricks. "This partnership makes it easier for enterprises to securely leverage their data and OpenAI models at scale with best-in-class governance and performance."

This partnership builds upon the companies' existing work together, where OpenAI leverages Databricks for the processing of AI data to help generate insights that enhance product quality and elevate the ChatGPT experience.

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