Matt Levine’s Money Stuff: OpenAI Is Good at Deals

Oct. 6, 2025, 5:27 PM UTC

OpenAI/AMD

The basic situation is that if OpenAI announces a big partnership with a public company, that company’s stock will go up. Today OpenAI announced a deal to buy tens of billions of dollars of chips from Advanced Micro Devices Inc., and AMD’s stock went up. As of noon today, AMD’s stock was at $213 per share, up about 29% from Friday’s close; it had added about $78 billion of market capitalization.

How do those negotiations go? Like, schematically:

OpenAI: We would like six gigawatts worth of your chips to do inference.

AMD: Terrific. That will be $78 billion. How would ...

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