{"id":44583,"date":"2026-02-04T07:51:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T07:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/jensen-huang-says-nvidia-would-love-to-back-an-openai-ipo-and-theres-no-drama-with-sam-altman\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T07:51:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T07:51:35","slug":"jensen-huang-says-nvidia-would-love-to-back-an-openai-ipo-and-theres-no-drama-with-sam-altman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/jensen-huang-says-nvidia-would-love-to-back-an-openai-ipo-and-theres-no-drama-with-sam-altman\/","title":{"rendered":"Jensen Huang says Nvidia would love to back an OpenAI IPO, and there&#8217;s &#8216;no drama&#8217; with Sam Altman"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/6982e434e1ba468a96ab5b52?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Jensen huang\"\/><figcaption>Jensen Huang said Nvidia would love to invest in a future OpenAI IPO, and that there&#039;s &quot;no drama&quot; with Sam Altman.<\/p>\n<p>Fabrice COFFRINI \/ AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Investing in a future OpenAI IPO sounds great to Jensen Huang.<\/li>\n<li>&quot;We love to be participating in that,&quot; said the Nvidia CEO in an interview on Tuesday.<\/li>\n<li>Huang also dismissed recent tension and said there&#039;s &quot;no drama&quot; between the two companies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Jensen Huang says Nvidia would love to invest in a future OpenAI IPO.<\/p>\n<p>Huang said in an interview on CNBC&#039;s &quot;Mad Money&quot; on Tuesday that there was &quot;no drama&quot; between Nvidia and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, pushing back against recent chatter of tension in the relationship between the two companies.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The first deal is on,&quot; the Nvidia CEO said, referring to the company&#039;s September deal with OpenAI, under which the company said it planned to invest up to $100 billion in the AI startup.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;And then there&#039;s, of course, an IPO in the future,&quot; he added. &quot;We love to be participating in that as well,&quot; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Huang also described OpenAI as a &quot;once in a generation company&quot; and said Nvidia is &quot;delighted to invest in it.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>His comments come amid reports suggesting internal unease around the deal.<\/p>\n<p>The Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday that the investment had sparked internal concerns at Nvidia, with some executives questioning the deal, according to people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, Reuters reported on Tuesday that OpenAI had been unhappy with certain newer Nvidia chips and had looked at alternatives since last year, citing people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Huang told reporters in Taipei on Saturday that speculation of any dissatisfaction with OpenAI was &quot;nonsense.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We will invest a great deal of money, probably the largest investment we&#039;ve ever made,&quot; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Altman has also pushed back on rumors of tension.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We love working with NVIDIA and they make the best AI chips in the world,&quot; wrote Altman in a post on X on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We hope to be a gigantic customer for a very long time. I don&#039;t get where all this insanity is coming from,&quot; he added.<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI is one of the world&#039;s most valuable private AI companies and a major customer for Nvidia&#039;s chips, which power the training and deployment of large language models.<\/p>\n<p>The startup has not announced plans for an IPO, but its fundraising and computing needs have fueled speculation about how it will finance future growth.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Big Short&quot; investor Michael Burry said in a Substack exchange in January that he was surprised that ChatGPT &quot;kicked off a multi-trillion-dollar infrastructure race.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#039;s like someone built a prototype robot and every business in the world started investing for a robot future,&quot; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jensen Huang said Nvidia would love to invest in a future OpenAI IPO, and that there&#039;s &quot;no drama&quot; with Sam Altman. Fabrice COFFRINI \/ AFP via Getty Images Investing in a future OpenAI IPO sounds great to Jensen Huang. &quot;We love to be participating in that,&quot; said the Nvidia CEO in an interview on Tuesday. 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