On October 13th, Beijing time, as reported by the Financial Times, OpenAI has inked a deal to buy 10 gigawatts of computer chips from Broadcom, a leading U.S. semiconductor behemoth. This transaction represents the latest addition to a series of recent deals, with a combined value running into hundreds of billions of dollars. This particular order is poised to inflate OpenAI's existing expenditure on chip and data center agreements—already approximately US$1 trillion—by an additional US$350 billion to US$500 billion.

At present, OpenAI is sparing no effort to secure the computing power essential for running services like ChatGPT. As per the agreement, OpenAI and Broadcom have collaboratively designed bespoke chips, meticulously crafted to optimize the performance of OpenAI's proprietary AI models. This move signifies OpenAI's maiden venture into the realm of producing its own AI chips.

Upon the deal's culmination, OpenAI's total computing power is projected to surpass 26 gigawatts, a figure comparable to the generating capacity of roughly 26 nuclear reactors.