OpenAI Denies Report of Dissatisfaction With Nvidia AI Chips
OpenAI Denies Report of Dissatisfaction With Nvidia AI Chips
Publish Date: 2026-02-03 12:51:00
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Monday (Feb. 2) that the artificial intelligence startup is satisfied with Nvidia’s AI chips.
“We love working with Nvidia and they make the best AI chips in the world,” Altman said in a Monday post on social platform X. “We hope to be a gigantic customer for a very long time. I don’t get where all this insanity is coming from.”
We love working with NVIDIA and they make the best AI chips in the world. We hope to be a gigantic customer for a very long time.
I don’t get where all this insanity is coming from.
— Sam Altman (@sama) February 2, 2026
The post came after Reuters reported earlier in the day that OpenAI was unsatisfied with the chips and has been looking for alternative suppliers since last year. The report cited eight unnamed sources.
According to the report, OpenAI is not satisfied with the speed with which Nvidia chips deliver answers to ChatGPT users, has developed agreements with AMD and other GPU suppliers, and has had talks with Cerebras, Groq and other chip suppliers.
Nvidia told Reuters, per the report: “Customers continue to choose Nvidia for inference because we deliver the best performance and total cost of ownership at scale.”
An OpenAI spokesperson said in the report that Nvidia powers most of OpenAI’s inference fleet and provides the best performance per dollar for inference.
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