ChatGPT to Run on Amazon Web Services Following Nearly $40 Billion Deal

OpenAI has entered into a major cloud partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS), selecting the company to host and scale its artificial intelligence operations, including those for ChatGPT. The agreement, effective immediately, involves a seven-year commitment valued at $38 billion.

Under the deal, AWS will supply OpenAI with access to its Amazon EC2 UltraServers. These servers are equipped with hundreds of thousands of Nvidia GPUs and can scale up to tens of millions of CPUs. This setup is tailored for handling complex and resource-intensive generative AI tasks.

The cloud capacity under this agreement is expected to be fully operational by the end of 2026. The deployment will utilize Nvidia’s GB200 and GB300 GPUs arranged within tightly connected clusters, enabling low-latency, high-performance AI workloads across distributed systems. OpenAI will also have the option to expand the infrastructure further from 2027.

According to the official announcement, the partnership is intended to provide OpenAI with increased computing power while benefiting from AWS’s security, scalability, and cost efficiency. AWS, which has experience managing large-scale AI infrastructure with over 500,000 chips in use, will support OpenAI’s continued growth in delivering generative AI tools to millions of users.