OpenAI and Amazon have announced a multi-year strategic partnership to accelerate AI innovation for enterprises, startups, and end consumers around the world.
Amazon will also invest US$50 billion in OpenAI, starting with an initial $15 billion investment and followed by another US$35 billion in the coming months when certain conditions are met.
Bringing Advanced AI Capabilities to Enterprises
OpenAI and Amazon are jointly developing a Stateful Runtime Environment powered by OpenAI’s models, which will be available through Amazon Bedrock.
Stateful developer environments are the next generation of how frontier models will be used, seamlessly enabling models to access elements like compute, memory, and identity.
A Stateful Runtime Environment allows developers to keep context, remember prior work, work across software tools and data sources, and access compute. They're designed to handle ongoing projects and workflows.
These stateful developer environments will be trained to run optimally on AWS's infrastructure and integrated with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and infrastructure services so customers’ AI applications and agents run cohesively with the rest of their infrastructure applications running in AWS.
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The Stateful Runtime Environment is expected to launch in the next few months.
Most Advanced Enterprise Platform
AWS will serve as the exclusive third-party cloud distribution provider for OpenAI Frontier, expanding access to OpenAI’s most advanced enterprise platform as demand for AI deployment accelerates across industries.
Frontier enables organizations to build, deploy, and manage teams of AI agents that operate across real business systems with shared context, built-in governance, and enterprise-grade security, without managing underlying infrastructure.
As companies move from experimentation to production AI, Frontier makes it straightforward to integrate powerful AI into existing workflows quickly, securely, and at global scale.
OpenAI to Use Trainium Compute
OpenAI and AWS are expanding their existing $38 billion multi-year agreement by US$100 billion over 8 years. The expansion includes OpenAI committing to consume approximately 2 gigawatts of Trainium capacity through AWS infrastructure, which will support demand for Stateful Runtime, Frontier, and other advanced workloads.
This agreement lowers the cost and improves the efficiency of producing intelligence at scale.
Under this structure, OpenAI secures long-term capacity while working with AWS to deploy purpose-built silicon alongside its broader compute ecosystem, enabling enterprises to consume intelligence on demand without managing underlying infrastructure.
This commitment spans both Trainium3 and next-generation Trainium4 chips and will power a broad range of advanced AI workloads at scale.
OpenAI and Amazon will collaborate to develop customized models available to Amazon developers to power Amazon’s customer-facing applications. Amazon teams will be able to tailor OpenAI models for use across AI products and agents that serve customers directly.
These capabilities will complement the models already available to Amazon developers, including Amazon’s Nova family, offering another tool for teams to build and deliver at scale.
Sam Altman, co-founder and CEO of OpenAI said: “OpenAI and Amazon share a belief that AI should show up in ways that are practical and genuinely useful for people.
”Combining OpenAI’s models with Amazon’s infrastructure and global reach helps us put powerful AI into the hands of businesses and users at real scale.”
Andy Jassy, President and CEO of Amazon said: “We have lots of developers and companies eager to run services powered by OpenAI models on AWS, and our unique collaboration with OpenAI to provide stateful runtime environments will change what’s possible for customers building AI apps and agents.
“We continue to be impressed with what OpenAI is building, and we're excited not only about their choosing to go big on our custom AI silicon (Trainium), but also our opportunity to invest in the company and partnership over the long-term.”