OpenAI signs $38 billion deal with Amazon, partnering with cloud leader for the first time

OpenAI is now at the center of a cloud war between Amazon and Microsoft. For the first time ever, Sam Alman's company is teaming up with Amazon Web Services in a 38 billion dollar deal that makes AWS the newest hyperscaler to power chat GBT. The move comes just a week after Microsoft lost its right of first refusal on new compute deals, really clearing the way for OpenAI to sign with Azure's biggest rival.Under the agreement, OpenAI gets instant access to hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA GPUs on AWS. It's al ...