OpenAI's deals are looking a little frothy

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  NPR.

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  There has been a whirlwind of gargantuan AI deals recently, often involving open AI.

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  Oh yes, the softly spoken wizard of chat GPT, Sam Altman, has been busy.

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  There was this $300 billion deal with the database and cloud company Oracle.

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  Basically, Open AI said it would buy $300 billion worth of computing power from Oracle.

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  But how it open AI pay for that, it's unclear.

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  Yeah, we're going to get into that.

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  We'll also talk about NVIDIA.

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  It came in soon after, saying it would invest up to $100 billion in open AI.

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  It's all starting to get a little heady.

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  $100 billion here, $300 billion there.

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  NVIDIA paying open AI who pays Oracle, who pays NVIDIA.

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  We're going to have to break it down.

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  This is The Indicator from Planet Money.

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  I'm Terry in Words.

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  And I'm Waylon Wong.

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  Today on the show, open AI's deals.

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  We look at the AI data center boom and how the world's most valuable People's startup is trying to win the AI race.

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  To untangle all the open AI deals, we're going to start from the ground floor.

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  And what's happening on the ground floor is acres and acres and acres of data center construction from Las Vegas to Northern Virginia.

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