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

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OpenAI and Amazon have reached a strategic cooperation agreement, with Amazon investing $50 billion, of which $15 billion is the initial phase. The two parties will jointly develop a stateful runtime environment, with AWS becoming the exclusive cloud provider for the OpenAI Frontier platform, and will extend the long-term agreement to $100 billion. They will also collaborate on developing custom models to support Amazon developers.

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2026-02-27 13:41:01

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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 offered 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.

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