SAN FRANCISCO (California): OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, on Monday announced a US$38 billion deal with Amazon Web Services (AWS) that grants it access to “hundreds of thousands” of Nvidia chip systems running artificial intelligence (AI).
The agreement is to run for an initial seven years and gives OpenAI access to Amazon’s data centres for more computing power, German Press Agency (dpa) reported.
ChatGPT most recently reached around 800 million users per week.
In a statement, AWS said the deal will give OpenAI the “ability to scale to tens of millions of” computer processing units (CPU) “for its advanced generative AI workloads.”
OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman has plans for massive data centres to be built with partners and had reached an agreement worth US$300 billion with software group Oracle for that.
OpenAI also intends to procure computing power worth $250 billion from investor Microsoft over the years.
Among AI developers, a full-blown tech race has broken out. Google and Facebook parent company Meta are also investing tens of billions of dollars per year to expand computing capacity, stoking fears of an AI bubble amid doubts that the money can be earned back.
Amazon wants to establish itself for the AI era with its cloud division AWS, which already supplies many companies with computing power.
The world’s largest online retailer is also a key backer of OpenAI rival Anthropic. – BERNAMA-dpa
