[dist-epoch]

> I could be thinking about this the wrong way but it appears that AMD is basically subsidizing the cost of the GPUs with equity.

Yes, you are reading it wrong. The big winner here is AMD, not OpenAI.

If there is any signal here, it's that AMD is still in the AI game. AMD stock is up 30% on this news.

[nerdix]

I didn't mean to imply that there was a winner or loser. Just that AMD was subsidizing it's GPUs with equity.

I think there are logical reasons for both companies to agree to this deal. AMD is trying to break CUDA dominance. OpenAI is getting extremely cheap compute for expansion and they'd also benefit from the Nvidia monopoly falling if that ever happens.

[orky56]

OpenAI isn't publicly listed so it's hard to tell how this affects them from a "share price" concept. However for a company that's not public and only has capital from financing rounds and revenue, this gives OpenAI a lot more flexibility for the future and hedges risk while maximizing upside.

[iszomer]

Yes. We don't have a sku with OpenAI but we may soon have one and they will be competing with others already in the pipeline. Recall the recent AMD acquisition of ZT Systems' engineering wing and now manufacturing by Sanmina.

[boringg]

Its called hedging your risk: making sure Nvidia isn't the only game in town.