OpenAI has signed a seven-year, $38 billion US ($53.4 billion CAD) deal with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to use its cloud infrastructure for running and scaling AI systems, including ChatGPT.
Under the agreement, OpenAI will tap into AWS data centres equipped with hundreds of thousands of Nvidia GPUs and millions of CPUs to handle its growing AI workloads. The partnership begins immediately, with full deployment expected by the end of 2026 and room to expand through 2027.
AWS will build clusters using its EC2 UltraServers, connecting Nvidia’s latest GB200 and GB300 chips for faster performance across OpenAI’s systems. The setup will support both model training and real-time use, such as running ChatGPT.
“Scaling frontier AI requires massive, reliable compute,” said OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman. “Our partnership with AWS strengthens the broad compute ecosystem that will power this next era and bring advanced AI to everyone.”
“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,” said Matt Garman, CEO of AWS, in an issued statement to iPhone in Canada. “The breadth and immediate availability of optimized compute demonstrates why AWS is uniquely positioned to support OpenAI’s vast AI workloads.”
The deal expands on the companies’ earlier collaboration that brought OpenAI’s foundation models to Amazon Bedrock, where businesses can use them for coding, research, and analytics.
The bigger picture here is OpenAI expanding beyond its partnership with Microsoft, ending exclusivity with the latter (which also has an AWS rival, Azure).
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