OpenAI's building its own global AI infrastructure one deal at a time
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OpenAI is rapidly transforming from a research lab to a global infrastructure powerhouse. Once reliant as Microsoft as its sole cloud provider, the ChatGPT-maker is now partnering with various tech giants, chip suppliers and cloud providers — all in a race to secure enough computing power to fuel its artificial intelligence ambitions.
The latest step in that expansion is a seven-year $38 billion partnership with Amazon Web Services. The deal gives OpenAI access to AWS’s state-of-the-art cloud computing services, including its Amazon EC2 UltraServers equipped with hundreds of thousands of Nvidia GPUs, and the capacity to scale up to tens of millions of CPUs for its most demanding generative AI workloads.
Once it is fully online by 2026, that hardware will allow the company to rapidly train its next generation of AI models and scale its core products like ChatGPT and DALL·E.
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