Samsung teams up with OpenAI to deliver Stargate chips

OpenAI is teaming up with South Korea’s Samsung and SK Hynix for “strategic partnerships” to proviso the precocious machine chips needed for its mammoth Stargate project.  

The Korean firms said they volition standard accumulation successful bid to conscionable OpenAI’s increasing request for representation chips needed to powerfulness its compute-hungry AI models. OpenAI said it expects to request arsenic galore arsenic 900,000 semiconductor wafers each period from the 2 firms. 

OpenAI said it is besides successful talks with the companies to unfastened 2 AI information centers successful South Korea. Samsung said it would besides research the anticipation of floating information centers, which it says could chopped costs and trim c emissions.

The partnerships are the latest successful a bid of strategical moves for OpenAI arsenic it secures compute, power, and currency for its AI projects. Last month, Nvidia said it volition beryllium investing up to $100 billion successful the institution arsenic it scales.