OpenAI has signed a $38 billion contract with Amazon to access its virtual warehouse infrastructure, continuing its marathon of large-scale strategic partnerships.
In 2025 alone, the company behind ChatGPT has secured more than $1 trillion in agreements with Oracle, Broadcom, AMD, and Nvidia. This latest deal reduces OpenAI’s reliance on Microsoft.
Under the seven-year pact, OpenAI will be able to use Nvidia’s GPUs through Amazon Web Services (AWS) to train advanced artificial intelligence models.
The agreement follows a major internal restructuring at OpenAI last week, which changed its nonprofit status and its relationship with Microsoft, giving the company greater financial and operational freedom.
“The growing frontier of AI requires massive, reliable computing power,” said Sam Altman. “Our collaboration with AWS strengthens the broad computing ecosystem that will power the next era and bring advanced AI closer to everyone.”
The deal reflects the soaring demand for computing power amid the rapid rise of interest in AI, as well as OpenAI’s urgency to secure the resources it needs.
However, the company still has not generated sufficient revenue, despite spending heavily to stay ahead in the AI race. Results published last week showed that OpenAI lost $12 billion in the last quarter.
With this contract, Amazon has added $140 billion to its market value.
The major AI giants have invested in each other, creating a web of interlinked deals that has attracted global attention — and OpenAI sits at the center of that web.
