Amazon’s $50B OpenAI bet reshapes the AI power map with AWS at the center

Amazon will invest $50 billion in OpenAI as part of a larger $110 billion funding round, with OpenAI committing about $138 billion to use Amazon’s Trainium chips over eight years; the deal, phased from an initial $15 billion followed by $35 billion later, broadens OpenAI’s funding base away from Microsoft and Nvidia and makes AWS the exclusive distributor for OpenAI Frontier, signaling a multi-cloud, price-competitive shift in the AI landscape.