OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman has embarked on a global fundraising and supply-chain campaign, seeking financing and manufacturing partners that can help meet the startup’s insatiable demand for computing capacity.

In a bid to secure long-term, low-cost supplies for OpenAI’s staggering, multitrillion-dollar infrastructure plan, Altman has been exploring financing alternatives with supply-chain partners, people familiar with his meetings said. Such discussions remain in the early stages, the people said.

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