PYMNTS.com November 3, 2025
AWS and OpenAI have announced a $38 billion agreement that enables OpenAI to run its AI workloads on AWS infrastructure, starting immediately.
Under the agreement, OpenAI is accessing AWS compute comprising hundreds of thousands of Nvidia GPUs and can expand to tens of millions of CPUs to scale agentic workloads, the companies said in a Monday (Nov. 3) press release.
OpenAI will start using AWS compute immediately, plans to deploy all the capacity included in this agreement before the end of 2026, and will be able to expand further in 2027 and beyond, according to the release.
“Scaling frontier AI requires massive, reliable compute,” OpenAI Co-founder and CEO Sam Altman said in the release. “Our partnership with AWS strengthens the...
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