Nvidia Shifts to $30 Billion Equity Investment in OpenAI, Replacing…

Team S · 2026-02-20T13:21:21.000Z

Nvidia and OpenAI have restructured their highly publicised funding and partnership plans, with the AI chip giant now poised to make an approximately $30 billion direct equity investment in OpenAI as part of the latter’s broader funding round replacing a previously discussed $100 billion multiyear framework that never progressed beyond initial terms. The revised investment forms part of OpenAI’s ongoing effort to raise capital that could exceed $100 billion, potentially valuing the company near $830 billion and reflecting the critical importance of compute and infrastructure in advanced AI development. The earlier $100 billion plan, announced in late 2025, was structured as a letter of intent linking staged Nvidia capital commitments to OpenAI’s expanding data-center deployments and chip purchases, but it was never finalised. Instead, Nvidia’s pivot to a direct equity commitment simplifies capital allocation and separates investment from merchandise contracts, offering a cleaner ownership stake in OpenAI while still underpinning deep strategic alignment between AI hardware and model development. OpenAI intends to deploy the fresh funding toward expanding its computing infrastructure, accelerating data-center growth, and advancing large-language model research and deployment. Nvidia’s investment underscores its role as a key strategic partner in powering artificial intelligence systems globally and continues a long-standing relationship between the world’s largest AI accelerators and one of the most influential AI developers.

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