"In early October, OpenAI president Greg Brockman and AMD CEO Lisa Su made the rounds of TV news shows, smiling ear to ear as they announced a multiyear partnership worth tens of billions of dollars-one that will see OpenAI deploy hundreds of thousands of AMD chips across its Stargate Project data center mega-campuses. The deal represents roughly six gigawatts of computing power, or about three times the amount of electricity the Hoover Dam can generate."
""What I love the most about working with Greg is he's just so clear in his vision that compute is the currency of intelligence, and his just maniacal focus on ensuring there's enough compute in this world," Su said. She recalled that the negotiations with Brockman were different from any she's had with other potential partners over the years. Partnerships like this usually unfold in stages, she said. "We start at the first stage of the partnership, and then we do something a little bigger, and then something a little bit bigger.""
"However, Brockman wanted to go big or go home. "I think Greg was like, 'failure is not an option,'" she said. "The infrastructure we're building is at a very different scale from how normal people build. We're building gigawatts of compute in a very short amount of time. It's really about, how do we break the laws of physics?" Sam Altman may be OpenAI's globe-trotting visionary and public face of the company, but it is Brockman, his longtime ally and cofounder, who has become the company's high-visibility operator."
OpenAI and AMD announced a multiyear partnership worth tens of billions to deploy hundreds of thousands of AMD chips across the Stargate Project mega-campuses. The deployment equals roughly six gigawatts of computing power, about three times the electricity generated by the Hoover Dam. AMD CEO Lisa Su credited Greg Brockman's insistence on massive-scale thinking for closing the deal and said negotiations bypassed typical staged partnership steps. Brockman demanded rapid, large-scale infrastructure, declaring failure was not an option and emphasizing gigawatts of compute deployed quickly. Brockman leads a broader OpenAI buildout that has committed roughly $1.4 trillion toward deploying 30 gigawatts of compute, creating a high-stakes financial gamble.
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