OpenAI and Amazon Announce Strategic Partnership, Amazon to Invest $500 Billion in OpenAI

Odaily News: According to an official announcement from OpenAI, OpenAI and Amazon have announced a multi-year strategic partnership. Amazon will invest $500 billion in OpenAI, with an initial investment of $150 billion. The remaining $350 billion will be completed in the coming months upon meeting specific conditions.

The two parties will jointly develop a stateful runtime environment powered by OpenAI models. This environment will be made available to AWS customers via Amazon Bedrock and is expected to launch in the coming months. AWS will become the exclusive third-party cloud distribution provider for OpenAI's Frontier platform, which enables enterprises to build, deploy, and manage teams of AI agents.

Regarding infrastructure, the two parties have extended their existing $380 billion multi-year agreement by an additional $1 trillion, with a term of 8 years. OpenAI has committed to utilizing approximately 2 gigawatts of Trainium compute power through AWS infrastructure, covering Trainium3 and the next-generation Trainium4 chips expected to begin delivery in 2027.

Furthermore, OpenAI and Amazon will also collaborate on developing custom models for Amazon developers to use in consumer-facing applications, supplementing Amazon's existing Nova series of models.