OpenAI has signed a multi-year deal with Amazon to buy $38 billion worth of AWS cloud infrastructure to train its models and serve its users.
The deal is yet another sign of the AI industry becoming increasingly entangled, with OpenAI now at the center of major partnerships with industry players including Google, Oracle, Nvidia, and AMD.
The AWS agreement is also notable because OpenAI rose to prominence in part through its partnership with Microsoft—Amazon’s biggest cloud rival. Amazon is also a major backer of one of OpenAI’s key competitors, Anthropic. Amazon and Microsoft are currently developing their own AI models to compete with startups like OpenAI.
Many now worry that the race
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