OpenAI and Oracle Sign $300B Deal 💸!

Also: Grammarly now offers writing support in 5 more languages, while OpenAI moves closer to a for-profit transition with Microsoft’s support 🤝.

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The Neural Frontier
September 12, 2025

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Forward thinkers, issue #124 of the Neural Frontier is here. 

OpenAI’s been pretty busy signing monumental deals and making strides towards its for-profit transition. 

This week also brought great news from Grammarly, as the company finally released a much-awaited feature request.

As always, let’s unpack 📦!

In a rush? Here's your quick byte: 

💸 OpenAI and Oracle sign $300B deal!

💬 Grammarly now offers writing support in 5 more languages.

🤝 OpenAI moves closer to a for-profit transition with Microsoft’s support!

🎭 AI Reimagines: Welcome to Emerald Glitch!

🎯 Everything else you missed this week.  

⚡ The Neural Frontier’s weekly spotlight: 3 AI tools making the rounds this week.

Source: Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times

OpenAI has inked one of the largest cloud computing deals in history: a $300 billion agreement with Oracle to build AI data center infrastructure. This deal, part of the broader Project Stargate, will cover more than half of OpenAI’s planned AI data centers in the U.S. over the next several years, starting in 2027.

Here’s the 411:

🏗️ Project Stargate: Project Stargate is OpenAI’s ambitious plan to construct massive computing infrastructure to support AI research and enterprise deployment. Key details include:

  • Investment scale: $300 billion over roughly five years with Oracle

  • Data center capacity: Planned centers will collectively draw 4.5 gigawatts of power

  • Construction underway: Initial sites include Abilene, Texas, with additional locations planned across the U.S.

  • International expansion: OpenAI also plans a massive computing complex in the United Arab Emirates, in partnership with Oracle, SoftBank, and Emirati AI firm G42

The Middle East expansion will follow a dollar-for-dollar investment model: for every dollar G42 and partners invest in the Emirates, they will invest an equivalent amount in U.S. facilities. The scale suggests tens of billions of dollars in each region.

📈 A Strategic Move for Oracle: The deal is also a major win for Oracle, boosting its cloud infrastructure revenue and stock performance. Highlights include:

  • Oracle added over $317 billion in future contract revenue during its latest quarter

  • CEO Safra Catz announced that multiple multi-billion-dollar contracts, including OpenAI’s, contributed to a 77% increase in Oracle’s cloud revenue this year

  • Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison saw his net worth climb, reclaiming the top spot on the world’s richest person list

OpenAI’s investment in data centers is part of a larger trend, with major tech players planning massive AI infrastructure builds:

  • Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI collectively plan to spend $300+ billion on AI data centers by the end of 2025

  • OpenAI is also reportedly pursuing a $10 billion contract with Broadcom to design its own AI chip, enhancing control over its computing stack

  • The initiative underlines OpenAI’s push to scale AI capabilities for enterprise, research, and consumer applications

Source: Grammarly

Grammarly, the trusted AI writing assistant, has officially expanded beyond English, now supporting Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, and Italian. This milestone allows professionals, students, and teams worldwide to access real-time grammar corrections, paragraph rewrites, and in-line translations directly within their workflow.

“Our customers have been asking for multilingual support, and we’re meeting them where they are—not just in the 500,000 apps and websites where Grammarly already works, but also in the languages they think, learn, and communicate in daily,”

Ailian Gan, Director of Product Management at Grammarly

Here’s what you need to know:

🌍 Tackling the Global Communication Challenge: With workplaces becoming increasingly international and nearly 1 in 5 people in the U.S. speaking multiple languages, seamless multilingual communication is essential. Traditional methods often force users to:

  • Switch between multiple apps

  • Copy-paste content into translation tools

  • Manually check text, creating errors and friction

Grammarly’s new multilingual capabilities remove these barriers, allowing users to write clearly and confidently in the language that best suits their audience, all without leaving the tool.

🛠️ Three Key Features for Multilingual Users

  1. Grammar & Spelling Correction: Signature red underlines now appear for Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, and Italian, just like in English.

  2. Multilingual Rewrites: Paragraph-level suggestions refine tone, style, and flow, e.g., shifting from formal to friendly with one click.

  3. In-line Translation: Instantly translate text between English and 19 other languages without leaving Grammarly.

Early beta trials with over 1 million users showed high adoption and satisfaction, validating the demand for multilingual writing assistance across professionals, students, and global teams.

🔐 Context, Security, and Integration: Grammarly’s AI is built from the ground up for writing, ensuring contextually relevant suggestions. Key advantages:

  • Enterprise-grade security and privacy

  • Works across apps, browsers, and operating systems

  • Built on proprietary models fine-tuned by linguists, with optional third-party LLM integration (e.g., OpenAI)

Grammarly plans to expand multilingual capabilities further:

  • Advanced clarity suggestions in the supported languages

  • Integration with AI-native agents launched in documents

  • Additional languages, especially for global customer support and offshore call centers

The features are available today in beta for Grammarly on Windows, Mac, and Chrome, across all plans (Free, Pro, Enterprise, Education). Users can simply start writing in any of the new languages to see real-time AI suggestions.

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OpenAI has reached a nonbinding agreement with Microsoft, its largest investor, to convert its for-profit arm into a public benefit corporation (PBC). If cleared by regulators, this could allow OpenAI to raise new capital and eventually go public.

Here’s the recap:

⚖️ How the Transition Works

  • OpenAI’s nonprofit will continue to exist and retain operational control.

  • The nonprofit will hold a stake in the new PBC, currently valued at over $100 billion.

  • The move still requires regulatory approval from California and Delaware before it takes effect.

This agreement follows months of negotiations aimed at loosening Microsoft’s cloud control, as OpenAI expands beyond its original partnership.

🌐 Expanding Independence

  • OpenAI has signed a $300 billion cloud contract with Oracle starting 2027.

  • It is collaborating with SoftBank on its Stargate data center project.

  • These deals reduce OpenAI’s dependence on Microsoft, which had preferred access to OpenAI technology under the original agreement.

🔥 Tensions and Controversies: Negotiations with Microsoft reportedly hit a boiling point over technology control, including the failed acquisition of AI coding startup Windsurf. Additionally, Elon Musk’s $97B unsolicited bid for OpenAI was rejected, but may have influenced the nonprofit’s stake valuation in the PBC.

Nonprofits like Encode and The Midas Project have criticized the transition, arguing it threatens OpenAI’s mission to develop AGI for humanity. OpenAI claims these groups are backed by competitors — a claim denied by the nonprofits.

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If you’re a fan of abstract or conceptual art designs, you’re gonna love this showcase. Bonus points if your favourite colour is emerald green 😅.

🎯 Everything else you missed this week.

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⚡ The Neural Frontier’s weekly spotlight: 3 AI tools making the rounds this week. 

1. 🎨 Canva AI: Canva AI is a conversational AI assistant integrated into Canva's design platform that transforms text or voice prompts into fully editable designs, images, documents, and interactive widgets. 

2. 📊 FunBlocks AI Slides: FunBlocks AI Slides is a Markdown-based presentation platform that generates complete slide decks from text prompts while maintaining full editing flexibility.

3. 🤖 Spiral: Spiral is an AI-powered customer insights agent that analyses millions of app reviews, live chat transcripts, and customer calls to provide instant answers to business-critical questions.

This week brought…

A massive infrastructure bet (OpenAI + Oracle), practical gains for multilingual writers, and a big corporate shift toward a for-profit structure.

As mixed as that bag is, it’s not even the weirdest we’ve seen. And who knows, next week might be even weirder (fingers crossed). 

Till then, stay curious, keep an eye on that inbox, and hit that Subscribe button. 

We’ll catch you next week on the Neural Frontier ✨.