OpenAI announces new Guaranteed Capacity offering for customers to secure compute

OpenAI announced a new Guaranteed Capacity offering that lets customers lock in long-term access to compute (the computational power needed to train and run AI models) by committing to one, three-year contracts with increasing discounts based on the commitment length. CEO Sam Altman said this helps OpenAI plan ahead while giving customers certainty about capacity availability, though the offering is only available until current allocation sells out.