OpenAI Taps Amazon AWS To Scale AI Compute On NVIDIA Blackwell In Massive $38B Deal

The AI arms race is afoot and in a bid to stay in front of the 8-ball, OpenAI is forming a multi-year partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to rapidly scale agentic workloads. As part of the massive $38 billion deal, OpenAI will have access to AWS compute comprising hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA GPUs, and potentially tens of millions of CPUs.

In a blog post, Amazon says it's deploying a sophisticated infrastructure for OpenAI that's optimized for efficient and performant AI processing. That includes clusters of NVIDIA GB300 and GB200 GPUs via Amazon EC2 UltraServers on the same network for low latency performance across interconnected systems.

"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."

The partnership begins in earnest right ...