OpenAI strikes $38 billion AI training deal with Amazon

OpenAI has struck a $38 cardinal deal with Amazon Web Services that volition springiness the AI elephantine entree to “hundreds of thousands” of Nvidia GPUs to powerfulness its AI models. The seven-year concern comes arsenic Microsoft continues to loosen its grip connected OpenAI, dropping its presumption arsenic its exclusive unreality provider and losing the archetypal close of refusal to big its AI workloads.

OpenAI volition “immediately” commencement utilizing AWS compute to bid its AI models, according to the property release, with “all capableness targeted to beryllium deployed earlier the extremity of 2026, and the quality to grow further into 2027 and beyond.”

Last week, OpenAI completed its for-profit restructuring and announced a caller woody with Microsoft that volition springiness the institution the rights to OpenAI’s exertion until it reaches precocious wide quality (AGI). Under the agreement, OpenAI tin enactment with 3rd parties to make immoderate AI products and merchandise definite unfastened value models.

The caller woody besides includes OpenAI’s committedness to acquisition $250 cardinal of Microsoft’s Azure services, dwarfing the $38 cardinal it volition wage Amazon. OpenAI besides has a reported $300 cardinal declaration with Oracle arsenic well, portion Amazon continues to determination billions of dollars into the AI startup Anthropic.