OpenAI has come to terms on a massive 7-year, $38 billion deal with Amazon Web Services to secure cloud computing capabilities needed to power its suite of advanced AI tools such as ChatGPT and Sora.

The deal which was announced on Monday gives OpenAI access to hundreds of thousands of Nvidia chips housed in Amazon’s global data centers, with full capacity slated to come online by the end of 2026.

AWS said the agreement will allow OpenAI to scale rapidly while tapping the “price, performance, scale, and security” of its cloud network.

“Scaling frontier AI requires massive, reliable compute,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a statement.

“Our partnership with AWS strengthens the broad compute ecosystem that will power this next era and bring advanced AI to everyone.”

The $38 billion p

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