Overview
- The companies are in early, fluid negotiations and no terms are finalized, according to reports first from The Information and echoed by Reuters.
- The contemplated investment is around $10 billion, with funds reportedly earmarked for OpenAI to buy AWS capacity and adopt Amazon's Trainium chips.
- A deal at that scale has been reported as implying a valuation above $500 billion for OpenAI, though neither side has confirmed the figures.
- OpenAI already maintains large multi‑year cloud deals, including a previously reported $38 billion, seven‑year AWS commitment that currently relies largely on Nvidia chips.
- Microsoft retains exclusivity to distribute OpenAI services to its cloud customers, limiting any immediate AWS sales tie‑in, and neither OpenAI nor Microsoft has commented on the latest reports.