OpenAI finalized a $38 billion multi-year agreement with Amazon Web Services to secure large-scale compute resources for future AI training and deployment workloads. The collaboration integrates AWS’s specialized chips, high-performance networking and data-management capabilities into OpenAI’s expanding research stack. Analysts view the deal as a defining escalation in the cloud-AI arms race between hyperscalers seeking to capture generative-AI infrastructure demand. The partnership underscores growing convergence between foundational-model labs and cloud providers aiming to dominate next-generation AI innovation pipelines.