Amazon Just Landed a $38 Billion OpenAI Deal
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OpenAI’s $1T IPO could fuel its shift from Nvidia’s pricey GPUs toward efficient, self-powered AI infrastructure and industrial autonomy.
A wave of deals and partnerships are escalating concerns that the trillion-dollar AI boom is being propped up by interconnected business transactions.
Both companies were back at it on Tuesday, announcing deals that once again added billions in value to public companies.
US stocks finished the first trading day of November mixed, with Big Tech names like Amazon (AMZN) and Nvidia (NVDA) rising near record-high levels, fueling a continued rally in the AI trade even as those gains weren't broadly distributed.
OpenAI and Amazon have signed a multi-year agreement worth $38 billion under which the e-commerce giant will provide the ChatGPT maker access to hundreds of thousands of Nvidia processors to train and run its artificial intelligence models.
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This is all to say, despite initially having the intent of being a non-profit, OpenAI's goalposts have shifted somewhat. OpenAI's market cap, at the time of writing, puts the company at an estimated $500 billion, which is one-tenth that of Nvidia. AI is a big business, with trillions of dollars relying on it.