To secure vast compute for OpenAI, Sam Altman's deal spree pits Silicon Valley giants against each other as they race to cash in, making OpenAI too big to fail
The CEO's dealmaking blitz has convinced Silicon Valley's giants to tether their fates to his company, essentially making it too big to fail
New: WSJ reports that our June story on OpenAI using Google's TPUs caused Jensen Huang to call Sam Altman—a call that led them to sign a $100b deal https://www.wsj.com/... [image]
Imagine a car dealer who leases you a car, then guarantees the loan you take to pay for building the add-on garage you'll park the car in. Now imagine you are their only customer this quarter. That should give you a sense of the entanglement between Nvidia and OpenAI. www.wsj.c…