OpenAI has signed a seven-year, $38 billion agreement with Amazon Web Services, adding another hyperscaler alongside Microsoft Azure for its growing AI compute needs. Where it's getting all this money was not disclosed.

It's been less than a week since OpenAI completed its for-profit restructuring that saw Microsoft lose its ability to retain a stranglehold on the AI firm's computing resources, and Altman and company have already inked a $38 billion deal with AWS to start data crunching in another cloud. Prior to the restructuring that closed last Tuesday, Microsoft retained a right of first refusal if OpenAI were to take its cloud computing needs elsewhere, but that portion of the pair's partnership vanished with the AI giant formalizing its transition into a for-profit public benefit co

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