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Amazon is leading the trio of tech heavyweights in commitments,
putting up $50 billion, followed by $30 billion each from Nvidia
and SoftBank, said OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman on
Friday. Other investors are anticipated to join as the funding
round progresses.
Amazon will start with an initial $15 billion investment and
will invest another $35 billion in the coming months under
preset conditions.
“These partnerships expand our global reach, deepen our
infrastructure, and strengthen our balance sheet so we can bring
frontier AI to more people, more businesses, and more
communities worldwide,” he wrote.
Altman said that ChatGPT has more than 900 million weekly active
users, and more than 50 million consumer subscribers.
“We are entering a new phase where frontier AI moves from
research into daily use at global scale,” he said. “Leadership
will be defined by who can scale infrastructure fast enough to
meet demand, and turn that capacity into products people rely
on. This funding and these partnerships let us do both, and move
faster on our mission to ensure AGI benefits all of humanity.”
OpenAI and Amazon's multiyear partnership will include bringing
new advanced AI capabilities to enterprises and having Amazon
Web Services serve as the exclusive third-party cloud
distribution provider for OpenAI Frontier. OpenAI and AWS will
expand their current $38 billion multiyear deal by $100 billion
over eight years. The companies will partner on developing
customized models available to Amazon developers to power
Amazon’s customer-facing applications.
OpenAI said it is also expanding its partnership with Nvidia.
OpenAI and Microsoft have had a partnership since 2019. OpenAI
said in a statement that nothing about the funding or new
partners announced Friday “in any way changes the terms” of its
relationship with Microsoft.
“The partnership remains strong and central,” OpenAI said.
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