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OpenAI hiring for clean energy and new technology lead
Position is an individual contributor lead role and will initially have no direct reports
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Firmus to provide OpenAI with compute capacity in Malaysia
While OpenAI's Stargate efforts in South Korea stall
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OpenAI gets green light for 3.2GW power deal to supply planned data center in Effingham County, Georgia
US utility Georgia Power will construct the new generation, with the ChatGPT maker expected to foot the bill
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Nvidia confirms it will back 4.25GW of OpenAI capacity at Ports-Pike mega data center
SB Energy facility will exclusively use Nvidia compute and networking
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OpenAI plans 3.2GW data center campus in Effingham County, Georgia
Is contracting energy from Georgia Power Company for project
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Uday Ruddarraju named OpenAI's CTO of Compute
Former xAI staffer celebrates one-year anniversary at company
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xAI appeals to Ninth Circuit after US court dismisses data center trade secret case against OpenAI
And OpenAI attempts to get its legal fees paid by Musk's company
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OpenAI's Sam Altman accuses Musk of selling public market investors "on short-term space data centers"
Generative AI business unlikely to make use of proposed SpaceX Orbital Data Center System
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OpenAI: "New bet" to partner with semiconductor companies, using AI to optimize chip design
After it used its own models to help co-design the Jalapeño AI chip with Broadcom
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OpenAI in talks to lease 10GW data center from SB Energy in Ohio
Data center project on federal land in the state
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OpenAI files for US IPO, but says it still has things it wants to do while private
A week after Anthropic filed for its IPO
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Oracle and OpenAI start construction on Stargate data center campus in Saline Township, Michigan
Project dubbed "The Barn"
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OpenAI launches "Guaranteed Capacity" offering, giving customers ability to secure long-term access to compute
A cloud contract within a cloud contract
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OpenAI claims to have secured 10GW of AI infrastructure capacity ahead of 2029 target
3GW added in last 90 days alone
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Microsoft contracts 30,000 GPUs from Nscale at Norway data center as OpenAI drops out of latest Stargate
OpenAI continues Stargate retreat
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Google takes up capacity at Nscale data center in West London, UK - report
Separate to the recently dropped Nscale site by OpenAI
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OpenAI reorganizes leadership amid data center strategy readjustment
Company is embracing renting AI servers from cloud providers instead of building all its data center capacity
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Microsoft in talks for the Crusoe Abilene capacity OpenAI's Stargate skipped - report
Could lease hundreds of megawatts of capacity
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OpenAI to amend DoD AI contract after surveillance and autonomous weapons concerns
After Anthropic gets supply-chain risk designation for not allowing such work on Claude
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OpenAI to use 2GW of Trainium on AWS, expand Amazon cloud contract by $100bn
After Amazon pumps $50bn into the AI company
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OpenAI raises $110bn, with $50bn from Amazon, and $30bn from both Nvidia and SoftBank
ChatGPT maker soars to $730bn valuation, signs Amazon compute deal
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Nvidia CEO says company will make a 'huge' investment in OpenAI, but it won't be $100bn
As company pushes back on claims that Jensen Huang was frustrated with OpenAI and its lack of discipline
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Amazon in talks to invest $50bn in OpenAI
Company is one of OpenAI's cloud providers, and an Anthropic investor
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Oracle revealed as tenant of Project Jupiter data center campus in New Mexico
Site being developed by Stack and BorderPlex Digital Assets will be used for OpenAI
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CoreWeave shareholder files lawsuit alleging company mislead investors over ability to deliver compute
Cites recent reports of data center delays
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CoreWeave deploys 16,000 GPUs at delayed data center in Denton, Texas
Internal messages note that the milestone was hit under "intense spotlight"
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Elon Musk pushed for OpenAI to work with Microsoft
Court documents show Musk helped facilitate the partnership he now condemns
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OpenAI and Amazon in talks for $10bn investment - report
Would see OpenAI also using AWS' custom AI chips