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OpenAI introduces Guaranteed Capacity, which lets customers get discounted access to OpenAI's compute using one- to three-year commitments based on spend levels

Guarantee long-term access to OpenAI compute for the products, agents, and customer workflows that matter most.  —  Plan for capacity Contact sales

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  • @sama Sam Altman on x
    customers are increasingly asking us for certainty on capacity. as models get better, we expect that the world will be capacity-constrained for some time. we are offering discounted tokens for 1-3 year commits. (it also helps us plan, so hopefully a big win-win.)
  • @gdb Greg Brockman on x
    we are offering discounted tokens and certainty on capacity availability in exchange for 1-3 year commits. we expect that the world will feel increasingly capacity constrained for the next while, as models continue to get much more useful.
  • @openai @openai on x
    Introducing OpenAI Guaranteed Capacity: a new offering that enables customers to guarantee long-term access to OpenAI compute. We've made long-term investments in infrastructure, partnerships, and capacity planning to help customers scale reliably. Now, Guaranteed Capacity
  • @mweinbach Max Weinbach on x
    Nobody pays market rate for AI OpenAI is now being clear: if you plan your spend, you get discounts
  • @edzitron Ed Zitron on x
    data centers are not getting built anywhere near as fast as people think
  • @sama Sam Altman on x
    we will offer this until we sell out of our current allocation for this program. (we will make sure to leave enough capacity for ChatGPT, Codex, etc.) we plan to offer it again in the future; our intention remains to build as much compute as fast as we can.
  • @quinnypig Corey Quinn on x
    @edzitron AWS does this all the time with contractually commitments and RIs / Savings Plans. They classify it as “unearned revenue.”
  • @iatalkspace Abubakar on x
    This is the core business model of AWS and other hyperscalers. The only thing missing now for OpenAI is an enterprise SaaS marketplace with third-party services.
  • @edzitron Ed Zitron on x
    they're doing the thing that Anthropic is doing where they count revenue paid up front as part of annualized revenue, give them a few weeks and suddenly OpenAI will be at $45bn in annualized [image]
  • @nickadobos Nick Dobos on x
    Klarna for tokens is wild lmao.
  • @_simonsmith Simon Smith on x
    Honest question: What's to stop a company from buying compute at a discounted rate and then reselling it in some way? How much of a wrapper is needed to avoid getting cut off by OpenAI? Because if anyone can just do this, it strikes me that the biggest buyers will be investors
  • @sk7037 Sachin Katti on x
    Today we announced OpenAI Guaranteed Capacity, a new offering that helps eligible customers plan for reliable access to OpenAI compute across supported cloud providers as they scale critical workflows. As AI adoption accelerates, compute is becoming a defining constraint of
  • @scaling01 @scaling01 on x
    so OpenAI is now offering a hedging instrument called “Guaranteed Capacity” that protects businesses from becoming part of the permanent underclass ? [image]
  • @borismpower Boris Power on x
    This should be a win-win for OpenAI and any company that believes that the value they get from AI is essential to their operations!
  • Denise Holland Dresser Denise Holland Dresser on linkedin
    Businesses are treating AI as a new operating layer: intelligence they can access consistently and apply across many different use cases. …
  • r/OpenAI r on reddit
    OpenAI Guaranteed Compute