OpenAI and AWS Sign $38 Billion Computing Deal

OpenAI and Amazon Web Services signed a multi-year partnership worth $38 billion. It gives the AI company immediate and expanding access to the hyperscaler’s advanced infrastructure to support and scale its AI workloads.

AWS will provide OpenAI with its EC2 UltraServers, featuring hundreds of thousands of Nvidia GPUS and the ability to scale to tens of millions of CPUs. The infrastructure AWS is building for OpenAI features sophisticated clustering of Nvidia GB200s and GB300s GPUs on the EC2 UltraServers, enabling low-latency, high-performance AI processing. The clusters are designed to support various workloads, from serving inference for ChatGPT to training next-generation models, with the flexibility to adapt to OpenAI’s evolving needs.

OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman noted that scaling frontier AI requires massive, reliable computing and added that working with AWS strengthens the broad computing ecosystem that will power this next era and bring advanced AI to everyone. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy stated on X that OpenAI will start using AWS’s infrastructure immediately and expects to have all the capacity deployed before the end of next year, with the ability to expand in 2027 and beyond.