By TOI Tech Desk
Publication Date: 2026-03-07 17:19:00
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took to social media to publicly thank Nvidia chief executive officer Jensen Huang, signaling that the partnership between the world’s most famous AI startup and the leading chipmaker is reaching new heights. The comment came a week following Nvidia announced $30 billion investment in OpenAI, and days after Huang said that this may be the last chance for the chipmaker to invest in ChatGPT-maker because it may go public later this year.“Very grateful to Jensen for working to expand Nvidia capacity at AWS so much for us!” Altman posted, highlighting a massive push to increase the computing power available to OpenAI.
Jensen Huang: Ramping up “like mad”
The gratitude follows recent comments from Jensen Huang, who revealed that Nvidia is moving aggressively to support OpenAI’s massive growth. According to Huang, Nvidia is helping OpenAI expand its reach across multiple cloud platforms. Huang described the expansion at AWS as “ramping like mad”.“So recently, there was a question about, are we going to invest $100 billion in OpenAI. We just — just for everybody’s update, we finalized our agreement. We’re going to invest $30 billion in OpenAI. I think the opportunity to invest $100 billion in OpenAI is probably not in the cards. And the reason for that is because they’re going to go public,” Huang said.“And so I’m fairly sure that if we provide the…