On Monday, Amazon announced a partnership that will allow OpenAI to use the company’s cloud computing services to run AI systems for products like the popular ChatGPT. OpenAI is paying $38 billion to access Amazon Web Services (AWS) servers and “hundreds of thousands of state-of-the-art NVIDIA GPUs.”

When it comes to artificial intelligence (AI), perhaps no one commands more attention than Sam Altman, the CEO of ChatGPT maker OpenAI. On Nov. 3, OpenAI announced a headline-grabbing $38 billion partnership with e-commerce and cloud titan Amazon ( AMZN 1.81%).

Amazon gains a marquee client for AWS, its profit engine, validating billions invested in AI-ready infrastructure. The deal bolsters AWS against rivals Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, while tying OpenAI closer to Amazon's ecosystem—building on prior integration of OpenAI's open-weight models into AWS services like Bedrock.

OpenAI's $38 billion switch to Amazon Web Services after its restructure reshapes the AI landscape, sparking industry tension and global anticipation.