• by Laurie Sullivan , October 13, 2025

OpenAI and Broadcom have formed a partnership to develop and use 10 gigawatts of custom artificial intelligence (AI) chips and computing systems over four years.

The partnerships AI has created are required to scale AI infrastructure and dominate market share to support the industry as it advances the way it creates content.

This will lead to faster, cheaper and smaller models. When these models progress, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman believes the world will find “new things to use it for.”

OpenAI initially operated on a little more than 2 gigawatts cluster of computing capacity.

The announcement, released Monday, revealed that the companies have been working together for the past 18 months to design a new chip, as well as an entire custom system to “serve the needs of the world to use advanced intelligence,” Altman said. 

"You take components that humans have already optimized and just pour compute into it, and the model comes out with its own optimizations," Altman said.

For perspective, 10 gigawatts represent the power of a nuclear power plant or the amount needed to power millions of homes. It can support massive industrial projects like AI data centers, or be used to advance renewable energy infrastructure.

Greg Brockman, president at OpenAI, said “the amount of compute required to bring our vision to bring AGI to the world, 10 gigawatts is not enough, a drop in the bucket compared with where we need to go,” to which Alman said, “it’s a big drop.”

Altman is working toward the most intelligence achievable through each watt of energy. Through OpenAI's partnerships with AMD and Broadcom, he believes OpenAI can achieve it.

Broadcom was founded in 1991 by professor-student pair Henry Samueli and Henry Nicholas from UCLA. Early on, Samueli founded PairGain Technologies, which pioneered high-speed telecommunications equipment for Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) services over existing telephone copper wires.