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Broadcom Seeks $50B for OpenAI Chips

Kobeissi says Broadcom seeks over $50B for OpenAI's chip, with Apollo and Blackstone among lenders.

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  • Broadcom, $AVGO, is seeking more than $50 billion in financing for OpenAI's custom AI chip, which the firms are developing together, per WSJ.
  • Apollo and Blackstone are among the lenders Broadcom has talked to about participating in the deal.
  • The financing is intended to help Oracle bridge the gap between when it has to pay for the hardware and when its cloud computing revenue starts coming in.

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The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter 2.7M followers

BREAKING: Broadcom, $AVGO, is seeking more than $50 billion in financing for OpenAI’s custom AI chip, which the firms are developing together, per WSJ. Apollo and Blackstone are among the lenders Broadcom has talked to about participating in the deal. The financing is intended to help Oracle bridge the gap between when it has to pay for the hardware and when its cloud computing revenue starts coming in.
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