Cloud computing company Amazon Web Services (AWS) and artificial intelligence (AI) company OpenAI have entered into a multi-year strategic partnership worth $38 billion to expand OpenAI’s access to large-scale computing infrastructure.
OpenAI will use AWS compute resources, which include hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA GPUs and millions of CPUs, to scale its AI workloads. AWS said it has extensive experience in managing large AI clusters, some exceeding 500,000 chips.
“Scaling frontier AI requires massive, reliable compute,” said Sam Altman, co-founder and CEO of OpenAI. “This partnership strengthens the broad compute ecosystem that will power this next era and bring advanced AI to everyone.”
The capacity is expected to be fully deployed by the end of 2026, with potential expansion through 2027 and beyond.
AWS will build a computing infrastructure catering to OpenAI’s needs, using an architecture designed for high processing efficiency. The setup links NVIDIA GB200 and GB300 GPUs through Amazon EC2 UltraServers within a single network to enable faster communication between systems. This configuration is designed to support a range of workloads, from powering ChatGPT’s inference to training future AI models.
“As OpenAI continues to push the boundaries of what’s possible, AWS’s best-in-class infrastructure will serve as a backbone for their AI ambitions,” said Matt Garman, CEO of AWS. “The breadth and immediate availability of optimized compute demonstrate why (we are) uniquely positioned to support OpenAI’s vast AI workloads.”
Earlier this year, OpenAI’s foundation models became available on Amazon Bedrock, AWS’ service for accessing AI models through an API. The partnership has allowed AWS customers to use OpenAI models for a variety of applications, including coding, data analysis, and research.