Inside OpenAI’s $18B Chip Financing Snag

Name: Inside OpenAI’s $18B Chip Financing Snag
Uploaded: 2026-05-10T05:50:50.545Z
Duration: 8 min 20 s
Channel: The Information
Description: Cloud Reporter Anissa Gardizy reveals why OpenAI’s custom chip deal with Broadcom is facing a financing roadblock. She explains why Microsoft’s refusal to commit to the hardware leaves Sam Altman scrambling for a Plan B. Read more: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais-ai-chip-deal-bro...

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Categories: Startup, VC, AI

Transcript Excerpt

Tell us a little bit about what you found with respect to how financing is going for this Open AI Broadcom chip. Open AI and Broadcom are in the middle of pretty tense negotiations right now as Open AI hopes to send its first custom chip to production at TSMC. They're at a little bit of a roadblock right now because they're trying to agree on vendor financing terms for this initial $18 billion deal and that hasn't been figured out yet. So, even though these two companies announced their partners...