OpenAI has struck a $38 billion agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to secure cloud computing power from the tech giant, the ChatGPT maker announced Monday.
The multi-year deal will give the AI firm access to “hundreds of thousands of state-of-the-art” Nvidia chips, as the company seeks vast computing power to continue developing its AI models.
“Scaling frontier AI requires massive, reliable compute,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a statement. “Our partnership with AWS strengthens the broad compute ecosystem that will power this next era and bring advanced AI to everyone.”
OpenAI is set to begin using AWS computing power immediately, with the Amazon cloud computing arm aiming to have all of the targeted capacity deployed before the end of 2026, it noted in a blog post.
“As OpenAI continues to push the boundaries of what’s possible, AWS’s best-in-class infrastructure will serve as a backbone for their AI ambitions,” AWS CEO Matt Garman said in a statement.
The AWS deal is the latest in a series of agreements for OpenAI, which has also recently unveiled partnerships with companies like Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom.
The ChatGPT maker announced last month that it was partnering with Nvidia to deploy 10 gigawatts, or about 4 million to 5 million chips. Several weeks later, it signed a deal with AMD to obtain six gigawatts’ worth of the company’s AI chips.
This was followed by an agreement with Broadcom to deploy 10 gigawatts of custom AI accelerators for OpenAI. It has also reportedly signed a $300 billion deal with Oracle for 4.5 gigawatts of power.
The company’s recent dealmaking spree has raised questions about its revenue stream as it seeks to make good on about $1 trillion in commitments, according to The Financial Times.
Amid a push for more resources, OpenAI completed a restructuring of the company last week, converting its for-profit arm into a public benefit corporation and giving the non-profit a controlling stake.
It initially sought to remove the non-profit’s control over the for-profit but backed away after facing pushback.
