In a major development for the $500 billion artificial intelligence (AI) giant, the company will begin using AWS’s cloud infrastructure immediately, with access to hundreds of thousands of Nvidia GPUs (graphics processing units) in the US. It will also consume even more of Amazon’s computing power in the coming years as demand for AI computing continues to grow.

Amazon’s shares jumped almost $38 billion compute contract.

In the short term, OpenAI will be using existing AWS data centres, but Amazon has pledged to create more infrastructure for the AI company as the agreement progresses.

“It’s completely separate capacity that we’re putting down,” Dave Brown, Vice President of Compute and Machine Learning Services at AWS, said in an interview. “Some of that capacity is already available,

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