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Nvidia plan to invest 100B in openAI stalled

Posted on 1/31/26 at 6:52 am
Posted by UltimaParadox
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Posted on 1/31/26 at 6:52 am
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Nvidia's plan to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI to help it train and run its latest artificial-intelligence models has stalled after some inside the chip giant expressed doubts about the deal, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday


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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has privately emphasized to industry associates in recent months that the original $100 billion agreement was non-binding and not finalized, the report said.


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Huang has also privately criticized what he has described as a lack of discipline in OpenAI's business approach and expressed concern about the competition it faces from the likes of Alphabet's Google and Anthropic, the WSJ added.


Yahoo finance/Reuters source

Lines up with the previous reporting that openAI is having serious a financial crunch and has pulled back dramatically on spending.

They are rolling out ads as their newest features these days
This post was edited on 1/31/26 at 6:55 am
Posted by Suntiger
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Posted on 1/31/26 at 7:49 am to
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openAI is having serious a financial crunch


Isn’t it still a non-profit company?
Posted by UltimaParadox
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Member since Nov 2008
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Posted on 1/31/26 at 7:58 am to
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Isn’t it still a non-profit company?


It restructured to a for profit company.

Needs to get to it's IPO in Q4, Altman going to have to do a musk level sell job I think to keep these valuations. Warning signs are popping up everywhere.
Posted by SlowFlowPro
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Posted on 1/31/26 at 7:59 am to
Is this why MSFT cratered the past 2 days?
Posted by Upperdecker
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Member since Nov 2014
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Posted on 1/31/26 at 8:07 am to
Jensen started backing off from OpenAI after Sam Altman struck a deal with AMD right after NVDA. That pissed Jensen off
Posted by lsuconnman
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Posted on 1/31/26 at 8:22 am to
Just needs to get Michael Saylor on board. Structure it as an AI treasury and the sky is the limit.
Posted by UltimaParadox
North Carolina
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Posted on 1/31/26 at 8:25 am to
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Just needs to get Michael Saylor on board. Structure it as an AI treasury and the sky is the limit.


OpenAI rocket coin. Just think every time someone uses chatgpt they have to use these tokens. It will be the currency of the future
Posted by 3D
NJ
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Posted on 1/31/26 at 8:28 am to
ok so drop the 100b into a share buy back
This post was edited on 1/31/26 at 8:29 am
Posted by bigjoe1
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Posted on 1/31/26 at 8:43 am to
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Is this why MSFT cratered the past 2 days?


I think the big problem was lack of growth in their cloud services plus operating margins getting squeezed.
As an aside quite a few analyst are asking just how long before you get reasonable ROI from AI? At some point these companies are going to have to start showing AI is profitable.





Posted by LSURussian
Member since Feb 2005
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Posted on 1/31/26 at 10:12 am to
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Is this why MSFT cratered the past 2 days?
No. MSFT cratered Thursday & Friday because I bought 200 shares in it earlier in the week…
Posted by Big Scrub TX
Member since Dec 2013
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Posted on 1/31/26 at 10:16 am to
With Amazon supposedly putting $50B into OpenAI at an $850B valuation, you can bet your arse the next step is Elon coming up with some way to cram SpaceX and Tesla investors into an xAI deal.
Posted by lsuconnman
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Posted on 1/31/26 at 11:37 am to
Given the animosity between Musk and Altman, it’s all but certain Musk is in the background trying to tank OpenAI.
Posted by Upperdecker
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Member since Nov 2014
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Posted on 1/31/26 at 11:48 am to
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drop the 100b into a share buy back

Dumb. This is late stage capitalism tactics. “We don’t have a better way to grow, we’ll just boost the share price temporarily so we can hit our bonus targets.”

NVDA should buy a memory company or do its own memory design and fund the production. The massive memory supply gap over the next several years would have it easily pay off.
Posted by UltimaParadox
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Member since Nov 2008
52157 posts
Posted on 1/31/26 at 12:15 pm to
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NVDA should buy a memory company or do its own memory design and fund the production. The massive memory supply gap over the next several years would have it easily pay off.


Nvidia is completely fabless, they do zero production. They are design only.

Everyone except Intel split their fab into other businesses. Intel keeps talking about it.

There is only 3 memory manufacturers left, Samsung, sk hynix, and micron. Very cyclical business shook everyone else out
Posted by Upperdecker
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Posted on 1/31/26 at 12:16 pm to
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There is only 3 memory manufacturers left, Samsung, sk hynix, and micron. Very cyclical business shook everyone else out

Hence why it would make sense for NVDA to buy one or invest in one. It’s not going to be cyclical any more. AI investment will drive steady memory growth
Posted by UltimaParadox
North Carolina
Member since Nov 2008
52157 posts
Posted on 1/31/26 at 12:23 pm to
Micron would be the only one that Nvidia could possibly buy, the others are intertwined with the Korean govt.

Not sure the government would allow them in the USA
Posted by Upperdecker
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Member since Nov 2014
32963 posts
Posted on 1/31/26 at 12:24 pm to
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Micron would be the only one that Nvidia could possibly buy, the others are intertwined with the Korean govt.

Korean relations are much better than things like China. But I’d expect Jensen would do an investment deal much like these other ones he’s been doing
Posted by AllDayEveryDay
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Posted on 1/31/26 at 12:30 pm to
Building shite for OpenAI is a bitch. They're demanding and don't give a frick about anyone.
Posted by Boomer Rick
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Posted on 1/31/26 at 4:35 pm to
Meta say hi.
Posted by lsuconnman
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Posted on 1/31/26 at 4:41 pm to
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Korean relations are much better than things like China.


The Chaebols make Korean companies virtually uninvestable.

The Korean Peninsula is a bizarre example of the worst extremes of both socialism and capitalism.
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