OpenAI also orders computing power from AWS
After Oracle and Microsoft, Amazon.com is also becoming a service provider for OpenAI for its AI calculations. However, Amazon AWS only plays a supporting role.
ChatGPT is OpenAI's best-known offering.
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OpenAI is now also using computing power from Amazon.com's AWS (Amazon Web Services) for its AI needs. Specifically, OpenAI will gain access to Amazon EC2 UltraServers with NVIDIA GPUs from the GB200 and GB300 model series. By the end of next year, Amazon will put “hundreds of thousands” of these graphics processors into operation for OpenAI.
After that, an expansion to a double-digit million number of processors is “possible,” as AWS announced. OpenAI is said to use the computing capacities for both training AI models and operating them. According to the announcement, OpenAI has committed to purchasing AWS services worth a total of 38 billion US dollars, spread over seven years.
This is a nice bonus for Amazon, but the amount is modest compared to OpenAI's main suppliers, Microsoft and Oracle. The latest agreement between OpenAI and investor Microsoft on new partnership rules also includes a contract for the purchase of additional services from Microsoft's Azure cloud, worth 250 billion dollars. However, OpenAI has not disclosed the timeframe for this.
Oracle contract almost 8x AWS
And with Oracle has even agreed to supply OpenAI with AI computing power for 300 billion dollars. This is almost eight times the AWS order, but is expected to start in 2027 and be spread over five years.
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It is not known where OpenAI intends to get these vast sums of money from. Part of the money is intended by CEO Sam Altman to be raised through an IPO.
The two cloud contracts with Oracle and Microsoft alone exceed the total value of OpenAI, according to the news agency Bloomberg. It estimates this to be around half a trillion dollars based on sales of employee shares to investors. At the same time, OpenAI is heavily in deficit.
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