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Hi, everyone. Welcome to the AI briefing. Short snippets of AI news and insight to cut through the noise. Big news dropped today that's sending shockwaves through the tech industry. OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, just signed a massive $38,000,000,000 deal with Amazon Web Services.
Tom Barber:Yes. You heard that right. $38,000,000,000 with a b. And this isn't just about the money. This is about the future of AI infrastructure and a major power shift in the Silicon Valley power dynamics.
Tom Barber:Let's break it down. So here's what's happening. OpenAI is paying Amazon $38,000,000,000 over the next seven years to access AWS cloud computing infrastructure. We're talking about hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA GPUs, those specialized chips that power AI training in the GPT rollout itself. The rollout starts immediately with full capacity expected by the 2026, and it could expand even further into 2027 and beyond.
Tom Barber:AWS is even building custom infrastructure specifically for OpenAI featuring clusters of NVIDIA's latest Blackwell g b 200 and g b 300 chips. And get this, they're also scaling to tens of millions of CPUs for what they're calling agentic workloads, which basically means AI that can take actions on your behalf. Now here's why this is such a big deal. For years, Microsoft has been OpenAI's exclusive cloud provider. Microsoft invested 13,000,000,000 in OpenAI and had what's called a right of first refusal, meaning OpenAI had to offer Microsoft first dibs on any new computing contracts.
Tom Barber:But just last week, that exclusivity ended when OpenAI completed its restructuring into a for profit company. And literally within days, they've signed with Microsoft's biggest rival in the cloud space. Talk about making a statement. This is AWS deal is OpenAI's first partnership with Amazon's cloud division, and it's clearly about diversification. They're no longer putting all their eggs in one basket.
Tom Barber:Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO, said scaling frontier AI requires massive re reliable compute. And, apparently, one cloud provider just wasn't cutting it anymore. And this Amazon deal, well, it's just a piece of a bigger puzzle. OpenAI has been on an absolute spending spree. According to reports, they've committed to over 1,400,000,000,000.0, yes, trillion dollars in infrastructure deals.
Tom Barber:They've got a $300,000,000,000 agreement with Oracle, over $22,000,000,000 with CoreWeave, and deals with chipmakers like NVIDIA, AMD, and Broadcom. For Amazon, this is huge validation of AWS's capabilities in the AI era. Their stock jumped nearly 5% on the news, adding about a $140,000,000,000 to their market cap. And it's especially significant because Amazon has also invested billions in Anthropic, OpenAI's biggest competitor. So AWS is essentially powering both sides of the AI race.
Tom Barber:But not everyone's celebrating. Some analysts are warning about an AI bubble. The question they're asking is, are these companies spending billions or trillions on infrastructure for technology that hasn't proven it can generate meaningful returns? OpenAI reportedly lost 12,000,000,000 last quarter, so the financial sustainability is definitely being questioned. What do you think?
Tom Barber:Is this the foundation for the AI revolution, or are you watching a tech bubble inflate in real time? Drop your thoughts in the comments below. If you found this breakdown helpful, hit that like button and subscribe for more tech news analysis. Thanks for watching, and I'll see you in the next one.