Billion-dollar deals in AI sector: Where the money is going

CoreWeave said on Thursday it had entered into an expanded agreement to provide Meta Platforms with $21 billion in cloud capacity, as the social media giant scales its infrastructure to support increasingly complex AI workloads. Here is a list of multi-billion-dollar AI, cloud and chip deals signed recently: Amazon and OpenAI Amazon is considering an investment of around $10 billion in OpenAI, though talks remain "very fluid," according to a source who requested anonymity due to the private nature of their talks. Disney and OpenAI Walt Disney to invest $1 billion in OpenAI and will let the ChatGPT-parent use characters from Star Wars, Pixar and Marvel franchises in its Sora AI video generator - a move that could transform Hollywood content creation. As part of the three-year licensing agreement, Sora and ChatGPT Images will begin generating videos featuring licensed Disney characters such as Mickey Mouse, Cinderella, and Mufasa early next year. The deal excludes any talent likeness or voices. Broadcom and Openai OpenAI has partnered with Broadcom to produce its first in-house artificial intelligence processors, the latest tie-up for the world 's most valuable startup for computing power amid surging demand for its services. AMD and OpenAI AMD agreed to supply artificial intelligence chips to OpenAI in a multi-year deal that would also give the ChatGPT creator the option to buy up to roughly 10% of the chipmaker. Nvidia and OpenAI Nvidia is set to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI and supply it with data center chips, in a deal giving the chipmaker a financial stake in OpenAI. OpenAI is already an important customer for Nvidia. Oracle and OpenAI Oracle is reported to have signed one of the biggest cloud deals ever with OpenAI, under which the ChatGPT maker is expected to buy $300 billion in computing power from the company for about five years. CoreWeave and OpenAI CoreWeave signed a five-year contract worth $11.9 billion with OpenAI in March, before the Nvidia-backed startup 's IPO. Stargate Data Center project Stargate is a joint venture between SoftBank, OpenAI and Oracle to build data centers. The project was announced in January by U.S. President Donald Trump, who said that the companies would invest up to $500 billion to fund infrastructure for artificial intelligence. Meta and AMD AMD will sell up to $60 billion worth of artificial intelligence chips to Meta in a deal that allows the social media firm to purchase as much as 10% of the chip firm. AMD will supply six gigawatts ' worth of chips to Meta, starting with one gigawatt of the company 's forthcoming MI450 flagship hardware in the second half of this year. In addition to AMD 's flagship graphics chips, Meta also plans to buy central processors, including a variant that will be customized for the social media platform 's needs. Meta and Manus Meta to acquire Chinese startup Manus as CEO Mark Zuckerberg aims to boost efforts to integrate agentic AI tools into its consumer-facing platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. The deal values Manus at $2 billion to $3 billion, according to a source, though financial terms were not disclosed. Meta and Coreweave CoreWeave has signed a $14 billion agreement with Meta to supply computing power to the Facebook parent. CoreWeave signed an expanded $21 billion deal with Meta, building on the agreement struck in September to provide cloud capacity. Meta and Oracle Oracle is in talks with Meta for a multi-year cloud computing deal worth about $20 billion, underscoring the social media giant 's drive to secure faster access to computing power. Meta and Google Google struck a six-year cloud computing deal with Meta Platforms worth more than $10 billion, Reuters had reported in August. Meta and Scale AI Meta took a 49% stake for about $14.3 billion in Scale AI and brought in its 28-year-old CEO, Alexandr Wang, to play a prominent role in the tech giant 's artificial intelligence strategy. Nvidia and Groq Nvidia has agreed to license chip technology from startup Groq and hire its CEO Jonathan Ross, who helped Google start its AI chip program, among other engineers at the company. CNBC reported that Nvidia had agreed to acquire Groq 's assets for $20 billion. Nvidia, Lumentum and Coherent Nvidia will invest $2 billion each in photonic product makers Lumentum and Coherent to support the companies ' research and development and manufacturing operations in the U.S., the companies said. Microsoft, Nvidia, and Anthropic Microsoft will invest up to $5 billion and Nvidia up to $10 billion in Anthropic, while the Claude maker will pledge $30 billion to run its workloads on Microsoft 's cloud. Under the agreement, Anthropic will commit up to 1 gigawatt of compute, powered by Nvidia 's advanced Grace Blackwell and Vera Rubin hardware. The company will also team up with Nvidia to improve chips and AI models for better performance. Nvidia-backed group and Aligned Data Centers An investor group including Bl