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OpenAI brings its models to Amazon's cloud after ending exclusivity with Microsoft
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A day after OpenAI revamped its relationship with Microsoft so that it can run all of its products on any cloud, the artificial intelligence company said its models will be available via Amazon Web Services.
Key facts
- In November, OpenAI announced a $38 billion commitment with Amazon Web Services, days after saying Microsoft Azure would be the sole cloud to service application programming interface, or API
- Three months later, OpenAI expanded its relationship with Amazon, which said it would invest $50 billion in Altman's company
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman sent a recorded message about the announcement, as he's currently in court across the Bay Bridge in Oakland for his case against Elon Musk — This is ridiculous," Sam Altman and OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar said about the story
Summary
AWS customers can experiment with OpenAI's models as well as its Codex agent for writing code, all through Amazon Bedrock, the companies announced on Tuesday. "This is what our customers have been asking us for for a long time," AWS CEO Matt Garman said at a launch event in San Francisco. Until now, developers could draw on so-called open-weight models from OpenAI that came to AWS in August. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman sent a recorded message about the announcement, as he's currently in court across the Bay Bridge in Oakland for his case against Elon Musk.