Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang stated Wednesday that he is stunned Superior Micro Gadgets supplied 10% of itself to OpenAI as a part of a multibillion-dollar partnership introduced earlier this week.
“It is imaginative, it is distinctive and shocking, contemplating they have been so enthusiastic about their next-generation product,” Huang stated in an interview with “CNBC’s Squawk Field.” “I am stunned that they’d give away 10% of the corporate earlier than they even constructed it. And so anyhow, it is intelligent, I assume.”
OpenAI and AMD reached a deal on Monday, with OpenAI committing to buy 6 gigawatts price of chips over a number of years, together with its forthcoming MI450 collection. As a part of the settlement, OpenAI will obtain warrants for as much as 160 million AMD shares, with vesting milestones based mostly on deployment quantity and AMD’s share worth.
If OpenAI workouts the total warrant, the corporate may purchase roughly 10% possession in AMD.
AMD shares have soared for the reason that announcement and have been up 5% on Wednesday, rising a staggering 35% to date this week. Nvidia shares have been practically 3% increased on Wednesday following Huang’s feedback.
The deal challenges Nvidia’s dominance within the synthetic intelligence chip business, a market the place AMD has sought to catch up, alongside cloud suppliers that are creating their very own chips.
Nvidia late final month introduced it deliberate to take a position as much as $100 billion in OpenAI over the following decade. OpenAI agreed to construct and deploy Nvidia methods that require 10 gigawatts of energy, which Huang stated on the time of the announcement is the same as between 4 million and 5 million graphics processing items, or GPUs.
Huang stated the funding is “very completely different” from OpenAI’s cope with AMD in that it permits Nvidia to promote on to the ChatGPT creator.
Nvidia’s funding in OpenAI has underscored issues in regards to the “round nature” of some AI infrastructure offers.
Requested how OpenAI will fund the cope with Nvidia, Huang stated, “They do not have the cash but.”
“They are going to have to lift that cash via, to start with, their revenues, which is rising exponentially, fairness or debt,” Huang stated. “They gave us the chance to take a position alongside different buyers when the time comes.”
Huang added that after Nvidia beforehand invested in OpenAI, his “solely remorse is that we did not make investments extra.”
Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, talking on CNBC’s Squawk Field on Oct. eighth, 2025.
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Huang additionally confirmed Nvidia’s involvement in xAI’s newest funding spherical, through which Elon Musk‘s AI startup is reportedly looking for to lift about $20 billion, in response to Bloomberg. Nvidia is about to take a position $2 billion, the outlet reported, citing individuals accustomed to the matter.
Huang stated he is “tremendous excited” in regards to the financing alternative, including that he needs he may give Musk extra money.
“Virtually all the pieces that Elon is a part of, you actually wish to be a part of as properly,” Huang stated.
Nvidia has additionally backed AI knowledge heart operator CoreWeave, which Huang stated he considers one among a number of “terrific investments” made by the corporate not too long ago.
“[They’re] actually particular firms, and so they’re constructing, they’re a part of our ecosystem constructing out the AI infrastructure for the world,” Huang stated.
Nvidia and AMD year-to-date inventory chart.