OpenAI and Amazon announce a strategic partnership, with Amazon investing $50 billion in OpenAI.

Odaily Planet Daily reports that according to official OpenAI news, OpenAI and Amazon have announced a multi-year strategic partnership. Amazon will invest $50 billion in OpenAI, with an initial investment of $15 billion, and the remaining $35 billion to be completed within the next few months upon meeting certain conditions.

The two parties will jointly develop a Stateful Runtime Environment powered by OpenAI models, which will be provided to AWS customers through Amazon Bedrock and is expected to go live in the coming months. AWS will become the exclusive third-party cloud distribution provider for the OpenAI Frontier platform, which allows enterprises to build, deploy, and manage AI agent teams.

In terms of infrastructure, the existing $38 billion multi-year agreement will be expanded to $100 billion, with an 8-year term. OpenAI commits to using approximately 2 gigawatts of Trainium compute power via AWS infrastructure, covering Trainium 3 and the next-generation Trainium 4 chips expected to start delivery in 2027.

Additionally, OpenAI and Amazon will collaborate on developing custom models for Amazon developers to use in consumer-facing applications, supplementing Amazon’s existing Nova series models.