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Amazon will invest $15B in OpenAI initially, followed by $35B if certain conditions are met; OpenAI commits to consuming ~2 GW of Trainium capacity through AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and OpenAI will co-create a Stateful Runtime Environment powered by OpenAI models …

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  • @kantrowitz Alex Kantrowitz on x
    Massive: “Amazon will also invest $50 billion in OpenAI, starting with an initial $15 billion investment and followed by another $35 billion in the coming months when certain conditions are met.”
  • @benbajarin Ben Bajarin on x
    So AWS is the exclusive provider for OpenAI Frontier, and Azure is the exclusive provider for the OpenAI API.
  • @quinnypig Corey Quinn on x
    Customers are all very excited about @awscloud Trainium once Amazon gives them an 11-figure check.
  • @om.co @om.co on bluesky
    The underlying story of OpenAI's jaw-dropping $110 billion raise is really about Amazon, and how as a “cloud leader” it slipped when it came to AI, and recognizing the opportunity early compared to Azure.  Now it's costing the company billions. om.co/2026/02/27/a...
  • @quinnypig Corey Quinn on x
    Woof. I don't disagree.
  • @patrickmoorhead Patrick Moorhead on x
    This is not an extension of the November deal. It is a fundamentally different relationship. The November 2025 agreement was straightforward. OpenAI committed $38 billion over seven years to rent NVIDIA GPU capacity on AWS. EC2 UltraServers, GB200s and GB300s, pure
  • @mweinbach Max Weinbach on x
    This is smart from AWS Azure had exclusivity for the OpenAI API, but the Stateful Runtime Environment seems like a product API not model API, so AWS can host/offer it without interfering with the Azure model API exclusivity
  • @rakeshsfnyc Rakesh Agrawal on x
    Reminds me of when people mocked Microsoft for investing in FB at a $15B valuation.
  • @hnshah Hiten Shah on x
    Early positioning beats late capital every time. Amazon just invested $50 billion in OpenAI for 6 percent ownership and distribution rights. Microsoft invested $13.8 billion starting in 2019 and owns 23.5 percent with exclusive IP, revenue sharing, and API control locked