Amazon finalized its $50 billion investment in OpenAI on July 31 after the AI startup met undisclosed performance milestones, releasing the final $35 billion tranche. The investment was part of a broader $110 billion funding round that also included SoftBank and NVIDIA, each contributing $30 billion. OpenAI has committed to spending approximately $100 billion on Amazon Web Services over the next eight years, establishing AWS as the exclusive cloud provider for OpenAI Frontier. This mega-deal signals a rapid centralization of AI development among the world’s largest corporations.
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