Welcome to the Tech Brew Ride Home for Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025. I'm Brian McCullough today.

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Nvidia is going to invest $100 billion in OpenAI. It's going to do so progressively as part of a deal to deploy at least 10 gigawatts of Nvidia systems for OpenAI's infrastructure in the coming years.

Quoting the Verge, one of the most important points here besides more data centers and compute, which are always in high demand for companies like Open

AI, is that as part of the deal, InVIDIA, quote, intends to invest up to $100 billion in

open AI progressively as each gigawatt is deployed per the release. The details will be finalized

in the next few weeks, according to the companies. Invideo will now be a preferred strategic

compute and networking partner for OpenAI's AI factory growth plans,

OpenAI said.

News of this strategic partnership comes after the January announcement that Microsoft would no longer be the sole compute provider for OpenAI,

and that the tech giant would now just have a right of first refusal in such cases.

Since then, OpenAI has branched out, beginning to build its own

data centers and a $300 billion cloud computing deal with Oracle. OpenAI and Microsoft also put out

a pointed statement earlier this month that they had signed a non-binding memorandum of

understanding, adding that they are actively working to finalize contractual terms in a

definitive agreement, end quote.

And quoting CNBC. Sam Altman and Jensen Huang negotiated their pact largely through a mix of

virtual discussions and one-on-one meetings in London, San Francisco and Washington, D.C., with no

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