OpenAI ropes in Samsung, SK Hynix to source memory chips for Stargate

OpenAI is leaving fewer stones unturned successful the contention to physique compute capableness for its AI efforts.

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

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

Under the deal, Samsung and SK Hynix program 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 treble the existent manufacture capableness for high-bandwidth representation chips.

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

Wednesday’s agreements travel a period of frenetic concern successful AI compute capacity, and OpenAI has been the 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 the ChatGPT shaper entree to much than 10 gigawatts of compute capableness via Nvidia’s AI grooming systems. The pursuing day, OpenAI said it would build retired 5 information centers with SoftBank and Oracle for the Stargate project, aiming to summation its full compute capableness to 7 gigawatts.

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

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

Samsung and SK Group volition besides integrate ChatGPT Enterprise and OpenAI APIs into their operations arsenic portion of the deal.