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- Amazon Web Services (AWS) and OpenAI are collaborating to build a stateful runtime environment powered by OpenAI models. This new tool will be available on Amazon Bedrock, so AWS customers can create generative AI applications and agents at scale.
- AWS will be the only third-party cloud provider for OpenAI Frontier. This platform lets organizations build, deploy, and manage teams of AI agents.
- OpenAI will use 2 GW of Trainium capacity on AWS to meet demand for a stateful runtime environment and other advanced workloads.
- OpenAI and Amazon will work together to create custom models that will power Amazon’s customer-facing applications.
- Amazon plans to invest $50 billion in OpenAI.
OpenAI and Amazon have announced a multi-year partnership to speed up AI innovation for businesses, startups, and consumers worldwide. Amazon will invest $50 billion in OpenAI, starting with $15 billion now and an additional $35 billion in the next few months, subject to certain conditions.
OpenAI and Amazon are partnering to bring advanced AI capabilities to both and are working together to develop a state-of-the-art runtime environment using OpenAI models. This will be available through Amazon Bedrock.
Stateful developer environments represent the next step in using advanced models. They let models access resources such as compute, memory, and identity. With a stateful runtime environment, developers can retain context, preserve previous work, use multiple software tools and data resources, and access compute resources. These environments are built to support active projects and workflows.
These stateful developer environments will be trained to run optimally on AWS’s infrastructure and integrated with Amazon Bedrock, Agent Core, and other AWS services, enabling customized AI applications and agents to run cohesively with the rest of their applications. The stateful runtime environment is expected to launch in the next few months.
Bringing OpenAI’s most advanced enterprise platform to AWS customers
AWS will be the only third-party cloud provider for OpenAI Frontier, making OpenAI’s most advanced enterprise platform more widely available as demand for AI grows across industries.
Frontier enables organizations to build, deploy, and manage teams of AI agents that work across real business systems, with shared context, built-in governance, and strong security, all without managing the underlying infrastructure. As companies move from testing to production, the use of AI frontier makes it easy to quickly, securely, and at scale add powerful AI to existing workflows. Trainium powers growing Amazon customer demand.
OpenAI and AWS are expanding their existing $38 billion multi-year agreement by $100 billion over 8 years. The expansion includes OpenAI committing to consume approximately 2 GW of Trainium capacity via AWS infrastructure, supporting demand for stateful runtime, frontier, and other advanced workloads. This agreement lowers the cost and improves the efficiency of producing intelligence at scale.
With this agreement, OpenAI secures long-term capacity and works with AWS to use custom-built silicon chips alongside AWS’s broader compute ecosystem. This lets businesses use AI on demand without managing the underlying infrastructure.
This agreement covers both Trainium 3 and the next-generation Trainium 4 chips, which will support a wide range of advanced AI workloads. Trainium 4, expected to be available in 2027, will offer much better performance, more memory bandwidth, and higher memory capacity to support more powerful AI systems at scale.
Custom Models Available To Power Amazon’s Customer-Facing Applications
OpenAI and Amazon will collaborate to develop custom models for Amazon developers to use in customer-facing applications. Amazon teams will be able to adapt OpenAI models for different AI products and customer-facing agents. These new models will add to the options already available to Amazon developers, like the Nova family, giving teams more tools to build and deliver at scale.
OpenAI and Amazon share the belief that AI should appear in ways that are practical and genuinely useful to people, said Sam Altman, co-founder and CEO of OpenAI. Combining OpenAI’s models with Amazon’s infrastructure and worldwide reach helps us put powerful AI into the hands of businesses and users at real scale.
We have lots of developers and firms eager to run services powered by OpenAI models on AWS. Our unique collaboration with OpenAI to provide straightforward runtime environments will change what’s possible for customers building AI apps and agents, Andy Jassy, president and CEO of Amazon, said. We continue to be impressed with OpenAI and what it is building, and we are excited not only about its decision to go big on our custom AI silicon (Trainium), but also about our opportunity to invest in the company and partner with it over the long term.
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OpenAI and Amazon share the belief that AI should appear in ways that are practical and genuinely useful to people. Combining OpenAI’s intelligence with Amazon’s infrastructure and worldwide reach helps us put powerful AI into the hands of businesses and users at a real scale.
Sam Altman, co-founder and CEO of OpenAI.
