OpenAI, AWS sign $38B compute deal

The agreement marks the first major hyperscaler infrastructure partnership announced by the AI company since its corporate restructuring.

Dive Brief: 

• OpenAI has entered into a $38 billion multiyear partnership with AWS to increase its cloud infrastructure access for advanced AI workloads, the two companies announced Monday. 
• AWS will provide OpenAI with access to Amazon EC2 UltraServers comprising thousands of Nvidia GPUs and the ability to scale to millions of CPUs to support its advanced generative AI workloads, the release said. 
• “Scaling frontier AI requires massive, reliable compute,” OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman said in the release. “Our partnership with AWS strengthens the broad compute ecosystem that will power this next era and bring advanced AI to everyone.”