It's been less than a week since OpenAI completed its for-profit restructuring that saw Microsoft lose its ability to retain a stranglehold on the AI firm's computing resources, and Altman and company have already inked a $38 billion deal with AWS to start data crunching in another cloud. Prior to the restructuring that closed last Tuesday, Microsoft retained a right of first refusal if OpenAI were to take its cloud computing needs elsewhere,
OpenAI has struck a $38 billion deal with Amazon Web Services that will give the AI giant access to "hundreds of thousands" of Nvidia GPUs to power its AI models. The seven-year partnership comes as Microsoft continues to loosen its grip on OpenAI, dropping its status as its exclusive cloud provider and losing the first right of refusal to host its AI workloads.
