OpenAI signs $38 billion compute deal with Amazon, partnering with cloud leader for first time

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OpenAI has signed a deal to buy $38 billion worth of capacity from Amazon

Web Services, its first contract with the leader in cloud infrastructure and the latest sign that the $500 billion artificial intelligence startup is no longer reliant on Microsoft

Under the agreement announced on Monday, OpenAI will immediately begin running workloads on AWS infrastructure, tapping hundreds of thousands of Nvidia’s

graphics processing units (GPUs) in the U.S., with plans to expand capacity in the coming years.