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OpenAI signs deal with AMD for AI chips

OpenAI has signed a deal with chipmaker AMD to obtain six gigawatts’ worth of the company’s AI chips, just weeks after unveiling a similar agreement with Nvidia.

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The ChatGPT maker will have the option to take up to 160 million shares, or a stake of about 10 percent, in AMD as part of the agreement announced Monday.

“This partnership brings the best of AMD and OpenAI together to create a true win-win enabling the world’s most ambitious AI buildout and advancing the entire AI ecosystem,” AMD Chair and CEO Lisa Su said in a statement.

The first gigawatt of AMD chips, its Instinct MI450 graphics processing units, are set to be deployed in the second half of 2026, according to a press release.

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