NVIDIA ships its much-awaited Blackwell AI Chips to OpenAI, Microsoft [Video]

On October 8, OpenAI announced via X that its team received the first engineering builds of Nvidia’s DGX B200. These new builds promise three times faster training speeds and fifteen times greater inference performance than previous models.

Contrary to tradition, this time, the technical team, rather than the founders, received the first GPU chip, with Sam Altman notably absent. 

When OpenAI was newly founded as a research non-profit, Jensen Huang, NVIDIA’s CEO, personally delivered the first GPU chip to Elon Musk, one of the founders. Earlier this year, Huang delivered the first NVIDIA DGX H200 to OpenAI’s founders, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman. With the recent change in leadership with senior leaders like Mira Murati and others leaving OpenAI, many opine that this is the start of a new …