Openai Ropes In Samsung, Sk Hynix To Source Memory Chips For Stargate

OpenAI is leaving fewer stones unturned successful nan title to build compute capacity for its AI efforts.

The ChatGPT shaper connected Wednesday said it had struck agreements pinch 2 of nan world’s biggest manufacturers of representation chips, Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, to make DRAM wafers for nan Stargate AI infrastructure project, and build information centers successful South Korea.

The companies signed nan letters of intent pursuing a gathering successful Seoul betwixt OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, South Korea’s president Lee Jae-myung, Samsung Electronics’ executive president Jay Y. Lee, and SK president Chey Tae-won.

Under nan deal, Samsung and SK Hynix scheme to standard their manufacturing to nutrient up to 900,000 high-bandwidth representation DRAM representation chips per period for usage successful Stargate and AI information centers. SK Group noted successful a abstracted connection that this would beryllium much than double nan existent manufacture capacity for high-bandwidth representation chips.

Stargate is simply a monolithic infrastructure task by OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank that seeks to walk $500 cardinal to build information centers dedicated to AI improvement successful nan United States.

Wednesday’s agreements travel a period of frenetic finance successful AI compute capacity, and OpenAI has been nan locus of a batch of that activity. Just a mates of weeks ago, Nvidia said it would invest up to $100 billion successful OpenAI arsenic portion of a woody that would springiness nan ChatGPT shaper entree to much than 10 gigawatts of compute capacity via Nvidia’s AI training systems. The pursuing day, OpenAI said it would build retired 5 information centers pinch SoftBank and Oracle for nan Stargate project, aiming to summation its full compute capacity to 7 gigawatts.

Earlier successful September, Oracle agreed to waste $300 cardinal of compute capacity to OpenAI complete 5 years.

OpenAI said it is besides moving pinch nan Korean Ministry of Science and ICT to find opportunities to build AI information centers extracurricular Seoul, and that it had struck a abstracted woody pinch SK Telecom to build an AI information center. The AI institution besides signed a fewer different agreements pinch Samsung subsidiaries to research avenues for building much information centers successful nan country.

Samsung and SK Group will besides merge ChatGPT Enterprise and OpenAI APIs into their operations arsenic portion of nan deal.