The AI Economy Is Eating Itself — and Growing Faster Than Ever

How OpenAI, Nvidia, and AMD turned competition into circular collaboration.

October 06, 2025

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🧠 These AI Deals Are Getting… Creative

If you thought tech partnerships were complicated before—wait till you see this.

Nvidia invests $100 billion in OpenAI to fund the next generation of large-scale compute.
OpenAI, in turn, uses a good portion of that money to buy Nvidia GPUs—essentially funneling the investment right back to Nvidia’s revenue line.

Now the loop deepens:
OpenAI is reportedly investing in AMD chips, helping the company scale its supply chain—and in exchange, OpenAI may acquire up to 10% equity in AMD.

So the new triangle looks like this:

Nvidia funds OpenAI → OpenAI buys Nvidia GPUs → OpenAI invests in AMD → AMD sells chips to OpenAI.

It’s not just creative finance—it’s circular capitalism in the AI era.

What’s happening here isn’t just about hardware supply; it’s about influence and independence.
OpenAI wants to ensure that its massive compute roadmap isn’t entirely dependent on one company. By investing in AMD, it gains leverage in the GPU arms race—while AMD secures a long-term anchor client.

Meanwhile, Nvidia still wins—because OpenAI’s expansion, no matter whose chips power it, drives overall GPU demand and infrastructure growth.

This feedback loop shows just how tightly intertwined the AI ecosystem has become.
It’s not startups versus suppliers anymore—it’s a mutual dependency machine where investments, innovation, and infrastructure all feed back into each other.