Companies pouring billions to advance AI infrastructure

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Nvidia is set to invest up to US$100 billion in OpenAI and supply it with data center chips, in a deal that gives the chipmaker a financial stake in the world’s most prominent AI company, which is already an important customer.

Investments in systems powering AI have surged since OpenAI launched ChatGPT in 2022, on expectations that companies across sectors will integrate the technology into their products and services.

Here is a list of multi-billion dollar AI, cloud and chip deals signed recently:

Nvidia and Intel

Nvidia will invest $5 billion in Intel, giving it roughly four per cent of the company after new shares are issued.

Oracle and Meta

Oracle is in talks with Meta for a multi-year cloud computing deal worth about $20 billion, underscoring the social media giant’s drive to secure faster access to computing power.

Oracle and OpenAI

Oracle is reported to have signed one of the biggest cloud deals ever with OpenAI, under which the ChatGPT maker is expected to buy $300 billion in computing power from the company for about five years.

CoreWeave and Nvidia

CoreWeave signed a $6.3 billion initial order with backer Nvidia, a deal that guarantees that the AI chipmaker will purchase any cloud capacity not sold to customers.

Nebius Group and Microsoft

Nebius Group will provide Microsoft with GPU infrastructure capacity in a deal worth $17.4 billion over a five-year term.

Meta and Google

Google struck a six-year cloud computing deal with Meta Platforms worth more than $10 billion, Reuters had reported in August.

Intel and SoftBank Group

Intel is getting a $2 billion capital injection from SoftBank Group, making the Japanese tech investor one of the top-10 shareholders of the troubled U.S. chipmaker.

Tesla and Samsung

Tesla signed a $16.5 billion deal to source chips from Samsung Electronics, with the EV maker’s CEO Elon Musk, saying that the South Korean tech giant’s new chip factory in Texas would make Tesla’s next-generation AI6 chip.

Meta And Scale AI

Meta took a 49 per cent stake for about $14.3 billion in Scale AI and brought in its 28-year-old CEO, Alexandr Wang, to play a prominent role in the tech giant’s artificial intelligence strategy.

Google and Windsurf

Google hired several key staff members from AI code generation startup Windsurf and will pay $2.4 billion in license fees as part of the deal to use some of Windsurf’s technology under non-exclusive terms.

CoreWeave and OpenAI

CoreWeave signed a five-year contract worth $11.9 billion with OpenAI in March, before the Nvidia-backed startup’s IPO.

Stargate datacenter project

Stargate is a joint venture between SoftBank, OpenAI and Oracle to build data centers. The project was announced in January by U.S. President Donald Trump, who said that the companies would invest up to $500 billion to fund infrastructure for artificial intelligence.

Amazon and Anthropic

Amazon.com pumped $4 billion into OpenAI competitor Anthropic, doubling its investment in the firm known for its GenAI chatbot Claude.

(Reporting by Juby Babu in Mexico City; Editing by Anil D’Silva)