Adds details from Amazon-OpenAI deal, Disney-OpenAI partnership
Dec 17 (Reuters) - Amazon AMZN.O is in talks to invest in OpenAI in a potential deal that could value the ChatGPT-parent at over $500 billion, according to a source familiar with the matter.
The potential deal underscores the AI industry's insatiable need for computing power as firms race to develop systems that match or surpass human intelligence.
Here is a list of multi-billion-dollar AI, cloud and chip deals signed recently:
OPENAI DEALS
AMAZON AND OPENAI
Amazon is considering an investment of around $10 billion in OpenAI, though talks remain "very fluid," according to a source who requested anonymity due to the private nature of their talks.
DISNEY AND OPENAI
Walt Disney DIS.N to invest $1 billion in OpenAI and will let the ChatGPT-parent use characters from Star Wars, Pixar and Marvel franchises in its Sora AI video generator - a move that could transform Hollywood content creation.
As part of the three-year licensing agreement, Sora and ChatGPT Images will begin generating videos featuring licensed Disney characters such as Mickey Mouse, Cinderella, and Mufasa early next year. The deal excludes any talent likeness or voices.
BROADCOM AND OPENAI
OpenAI has partnered with Broadcom AVGO.O to produce its first in-house artificial intelligence processors, the latest tie-up for the world's most valuable startup for computing power amid surging demand for its services.
AMD AND OPENAI
AMD AMD.O agreed to supply artificial intelligence chips to OpenAI in a multi-year deal that would also give the ChatGPT creator the option to buy up to roughly 10% of the chipmaker.
NVIDIA AND OPENAI
Nvidia is set to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI and supply it with data center chips, in a deal giving the chipmaker a financial stake in OpenAI. OpenAI is already an important customer for Nvidia.
ORACLE AND OPENAI
Oracle is reported to have signed one of the biggest cloud deals ever with OpenAI, under which the ChatGPT maker is expected to buy $300 billion in computing power from the company for about five years.
COREWEAVE AND OPENAI
CoreWeave signed a five-year contract worth $11.9 billion with OpenAI in March, before the Nvidia-backed startup's IPO.
STARGATE DATACENTER PROJECT
Stargate is a joint venture between SoftBank, OpenAI and Oracle to build data centers. The project was announced in January by U.S. President Donald Trump, who said that the companies would invest up to $500 billion to fund infrastructure for artificial intelligence.
META DEALS
META AND COREWEAVE
CoreWeave CRWV.O has signed a $14 billion agreement with Meta META.O to supply computing power to the Facebook parent.
META AND ORACLE
Oracle ORCL.N is in talks with Meta for a multi-year cloud computing deal worth about $20 billion, underscoring the social media giant's drive to secure faster access to computing power.
META AND GOOGLE
Google struck a six-year cloud computing deal with Meta Platforms worth more than $10 billion, Reuters had reported in August.
META AND SCALE AI
Meta took a 49% stake for about $14.3 billion in Scale AI and brought in its 28-year-old CEO, Alexandr Wang, to play a prominent role in the tech giant's artificial intelligence strategy.
NVIDIA DEALS
MICROSOFT, NVIDIA, AND ANTHROPIC
Microsoft MSFT.O will invest up to $5 billion and Nvidia NVDA.O up to $10 billion in Anthropic, while the Claude maker will pledge $30 billion to run its workloads on Microsoft's cloud.
Under the agreement, Anthropic will commit up to 1 gigawatt of compute, powered by Nvidia's advanced Grace Blackwell and Vera Rubin hardware. The company will also team up with Nvidia to improve chips and AI models for better performance.
NVIDIA-BACKED GROUP AND ALIGNED DATA CENTERS
An investor group including BlackRock BLK.N, Microsoft and Nvidia is buying U.S.-based Aligned Data Centers, one of the world's biggest data center operators with nearly 80 facilities, in a deal worth $40 billion.
NVIDIA AND INTEL
Nvidia will invest $5 billion in Intel INTC.O, giving it roughly 4% of the company after new shares are issued.
COREWEAVE AND NVIDIA
CoreWeave signed a $6.3 billion initial order with backer Nvidia, a deal that guarantees that the AI chipmaker will purchase any cloud capacity not sold to customers.
GOOGLE DEALS
GOOGLE AND TEXAS
Google GOOGL.O will invest $40 billion in three new data centers in Texas through 2027. One of the data centers will be in Armstrong County, in the Texas Panhandle, and the other two in Haskell County, a stretch of West Texas near Abilene.
The company is also continuing to invest in its existing Midlothian campus and Dallas cloud region, part of the company's global network of 42 cloud regions.
GOOGLE AND WINDSURF
Google hired several key staff members from AI code generation startup Windsurf and will pay $2.4 billion in license fees as part of the deal to use some of Windsurf's technology under non-exclusive terms.
OTHERS
NEBIUS GROUP AND MICROSOFT
Nebius Group NBIS.O will provide Microsoft with GPU infrastructure capacity in a deal worth $17.4 billion over a five-year term.
INTEL AND SOFTBANK GROUP
Intel is getting a $2 billion capital injection from SoftBank Group 9984.T, making the Japanese tech investor one of the top-10 shareholders of the troubled U.S. chipmaker.
TESLA AND SAMSUNG
Tesla TSLA.O signed a $16.5 billion deal to source chips from Samsung Electronics 005930.KS, with the EV maker's CEO Elon Musk saying that the South Korean tech giant's new chip factory in Texas would make Tesla's next-generation AI6 chip.
AMAZON AND ANTHROPIC
Amazon.com AMZN.O pumped $4 billion into OpenAI competitor Anthropic, doubling its investment in the firm known for its GenAI chatbot Claude.
(Reporting by Juby Babu in Mexico City, Deborah Sophia, Arnav Mishra, Jaspreet Singh, and Zaheer Kachwala in Bengaluru; Editing by Sriraj Kalluvila, Alan Barona and Maju Samuel)
((Juby.Babu@thomsonreuters.com))
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