OpenAI, AMD announce 6 gigawatt partnership
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Chair and CEO Lisa Su testify before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on May 08, 2025 in Washington, DC. Alex Wong/Getty Images
The new agreement between OpenAI and Advanced Microelectronic Devices underscores the huge demand for computing power in the AI era.
OpenAI inked a new deal with chip manufacturer Advanced Microelectronic Devices to use the latter’s technology to bring six gigawatts of power to OpenAI’s artificial intelligence computing infrastructure.
Announced on Monday morning, OpenAI and AMD’s partnership comes amid the growing market demand for more compute power to run advanced AI systems. This agreement marries OpenAI and AMD as compute partners in scaling deployments of AMD’s hardware to support OpenAI’s software.
AMD is set to conduct its first gigawatt deployment using its Instinct MI450 GPUs in the second half of 2026.
"We are thrilled to partner with OpenAI to deliver AI compute at massive scale," said AMD CEO Lisa Su in the press release. "This partnership brings the best of AMD and OpenAI together to create a true win-win enabling the world’s most ambitious AI buildout and advancing the entire AI ecosystem."
AMD’s chip technology is present in other high-performing computers, notably helping power the El Capitan supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, which was dubbed the world’s fastest supercomputer in late 2024.
“This partnership is a major step in building the compute capacity needed to realize AI’s full potential,” Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI said in the press announcement. “AMD’s leadership in high-performance chips will enable us to accelerate progress and bring the benefits of advanced AI to everyone faster.”
Su and Altman spent time in D.C., testifying together during a Senate hearing on the regulatory balance lawmakers need to strike to ensure the U.S.-made technology stack can achieve global dominance. OpenAI has also increasingly engaged with federal customers in recent months, inking a deal with the General Services Administration in August to offer its ChatGPT product to federal agencies for $1.
This new partnership follows OpenAI’s engagement with other prominent chip manufacturers, like NVIDIA.
“This is all incremental to our work with NVIDIA (and we plan to increase our NVIDIA purchasing over time),” Altman wrote of the AMD deal on X on Monday. “The world needs much more compute…”