{"id":21865,"date":"2026-02-05T07:38:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T06:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/05\/what-does-the-disappearance-of-a-100bn-deal-mean-for-the-ai-economy\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T07:38:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T06:38:04","slug":"what-does-the-disappearance-of-a-100bn-deal-mean-for-the-ai-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/05\/what-does-the-disappearance-of-a-100bn-deal-mean-for-the-ai-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"What does the disappearance of a $100bn deal mean for the AI economy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparent collapse of Nvidia\u2013OpenAI tie-up raises questions about circular funding and who will bear the cost of AI\u2019s expansion<\/p>\n<p>Did the circular AI economy just wobble? Last week it was reported that a much-discussed $100bn deal \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/sep\/22\/nvidia-openai-investment-100-billion\">announced last September<\/a> \u2013 between Nvidia and OpenAI might not be happening at all.<\/p>\n<p>This was a circular arrangement through which the chipmaker would supply the ChatGPT developer with huge sums of money that would largely go towards the purchase of its own chips.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/feb\/05\/disapperance-100bn-deal-ai-circular-economy-funding-nvidia-openai\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/6845c97ffe0e3f5089861cc929743ff09547fbda\/0_38_5301_4241\/master\/5301.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=dbea708694aca6feaa5343fef1e9e640\" title=\"What does the disappearance of a $100bn deal mean for the AI economy?\" \/>Apparent collapse of Nvidia\u2013OpenAI tie-up raises questions about circular funding and who will bear the cost of AI\u2019s expansion<br \/>\nDid the circular AI economy just wobble? Last week it was reported that a much-discussed $100bn deal \u2013 announced last September \u2013 between Nvidia and OpenAI might not be happening at all.<br \/>\nThis was a circular arrangement through which the chipmaker would supply the ChatGPT developer with huge sums of money that would largely go towards the purchase of its own chips. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparent collapse of Nvidia\u2013OpenAI tie-up raises questions about circular funding and who will bear the cost of AI\u2019s expansion Did the circular AI economy just wobble? Last week it was reported that a much-discussed $100bn deal \u2013 announced last September \u2013 between Nvidia and OpenAI might not be happening at all. This was a circular &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/05\/what-does-the-disappearance-of-a-100bn-deal-mean-for-the-ai-economy\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What does the disappearance of a $100bn deal mean for the AI economy?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21865"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}