According to new news, OpenAI and Broadcom have announced a strategic partnership to jointly launch custom chips with a total capacity of 10GW (gigawatts). Deployment and network system improvements are expected to begin in the second half of 2026, with completion expected by the end of 2029.
Joining forces to build a 10-gigawatt AI chip
According to the press release, OpenAI will be responsible for AI chip design, developing and deploying it with Broadcom. Through these self-developed chips and systems, OpenAI will directly integrate its cutting-edge models and product development experience into hardware products, unleashing new levels of computing power and intelligence.
OpenAI founder and CEO Sam Altman said, “Our collaboration with Broadcom will be a critical step in unleashing the potential of AI infrastructure, delivering real benefits to humanity and businesses, and paving the way for the future of AI.”
It’s worth noting that in October, OpenAI made a series of major moves to expand its product and business portfolio, and plans to invest a total of $1 trillion in building an AI computing network.
$Trillions Continue to Invest in Computing Infrastructure
At its recent annual developer conference, OpenAI and AMD announced a multi-year partnership agreement. OpenAI will gradually deploy 6 gigawatts (GW) of AMD GPU chips.
The initial deployment of 1 GW of AMD MI450 GPU chips will begin in the second half of next year and will be expanded to future generations of products. AMD stated that the deal could generate tens of billions of dollars in revenue annually, and the company expects to generate over $100 billion in new revenue over the next four years.
Concurrently, OpenAI has reached a strategic partnership with NVIDIA to build at least 10 GW of AI data centers using NVIDIA systems (including millions of GPUs) for training next-generation models. NVIDIA also plans to gradually invest $100 billion in OpenAI.
As the world’s most valuable AI startup, OpenAI has continuously launched major partnerships, signing agreements totaling approximately $1 trillion with giants such as Oracle, NVIDIA, and AMD, covering key areas such as computing power and cloud services.
Industry insiders believe these collaborations are more than just commercial partnerships; they also signal the global AI industry has entered a deeper phase of “eco-competition.” “Rather than a simple ‘closed loop,’ their deep integration represents the building of a higher ‘wall.’ This will accelerate the industry’s ‘Matthew effect,’ resulting in far-reaching, multi-faceted impacts.”
WiMi Continues to Invest in the AI Chip + Scenario Ecosystem
According to data, Wimi Hologram Cloud Inc. (WIMI), an innovative AI visual computing company, continues to build an open-source AI chip ecosystem and application capabilities, covering core areas such as computing power infrastructure, multimodal models, and robotics. These technologies, designed to achieve cross-scalability, will bring significant efficiency to large-scale AI training and inference, thereby accelerating the development and widespread adoption of generative AI applications.
In addition, WiMi adheres to a dual-innovation model of “in-house research and development + open source” to build an AI chip ecosystem. This not only serves its own multimodal interaction and robotics businesses, but also promotes industry collaborative innovation by reducing access costs, making it a key player in the differentiated competitiveness of AI hardware scenarios.
Looking ahead, WiMi will continue to advance multimodal technological breakthroughs, strengthen R&D in AI development engines, quantum computing, and edge chips to support dynamic real-time rendering. Using AI vision algorithms, it will enhance capabilities like environmental perception and gesture recognition, driving intelligent virtual-reality interactions and meeting the demands of large-scale model training and inference.
Summary
It can be said that AI is in the midst of an industrial leap forward, and when the winners emerge, society will continue to reap significant benefits. Behind OpenAI’s trillion-dollar gamble lies a profound shift in the global AI industry, from single-point technological breakthroughs to full-stack resource integration. This aggressive push by OpenAI, a landscape where computing power and algorithms are tightly integrated, and companies serve as both capital and users, may become the mainstream of the future and redefine the boundaries between AI and the business world.
