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OpenAI, Amazon Announce Multi-Year Strategic Partnership as Microsoft’s Exclusive Deal Ends

10:19 PM IST · April 29, 2026

Hours after OpenAI and Microsoft revealed the amended non-exclusive partnership, the ChatGPT maker has started forging new partnerships. On Monday, the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence (AI) giant announced a multi-year strategic partnership with Amazon and its cloud division, Amazon Web Services (AWS). The multi-faceted deal brings the latest OpenAI AI models to AWS customers, allows the AI firm to source additional compute, and includes a massive financial investment from the Seattle-based e-commerce giant. Amazon has also hosted several OpenAI models on its Bedrock platform in a limited preview.