Nvidia to provide 1 gigawatt of AI chips, make 'significant investment' in OpenAI rival Thinking Machines Labs

Nvidia (NVDA) on Tuesday announced that it is forging a partnership with AI company Thinking Machines Lab that will see the chipmaker provide upwards of 1 gigawatt's worth of its next-generation Vera Rubin chips to the company. In a joint statement, Nvidia and Thinking Machines said the processors will be deployed early next year. The deal also calls for the two to "design training and serving systems for Nvidia architectures and broader access to frontier AI and open models for enterprises, research inst ...