By Hassan Mujtaba
Publication Date: 2026-05-06 17:30:00
It’s one thing to partner with either one or two major names in the AI segment, but OpenAI got AMD, NVIDIA, Intel, Microsoft, & Broadcom to accelerate large-scale AI training.
The new announcement from OpenAI comes as a supercomputer network partnership that aims to accelerate large-scale AI training. For this purpose, AMD, Broadcom, Intel, Microsoft, and NVIDIA are working with the firm to develop a new protocol called MRC (Multipath Reliable Connection) with the goal of improving GPU networking performance and resilience in large training clusters.
OpenAI has released MRC today through the OCP (Open Compute Project) to facilitate the broader use of the protocol across AI firms.
The problem that pushed the need for MRC is the transfer of data when training large AI models. It is stated that even a single transfer arriving late can disrupt the entire process, causing GPUs to sit idle. The main sources of this delay are linked to Network…
