Amazon is in early discussions to speculate as a lot as $10 billion in OpenAI in a deal that may see the AI lab utilizing the e-commerce big’s AI chips, CNBC reported.
If it materializes, the deal would worth OpenAI at greater than $500 billion, Bloomberg reported, citing an nameless supply.
Amazon has been trying to diversify its bets within the AI race, which has thus far seen it accomplice up and make investments $8 billion in Anthropic, a rival to OpenAI. The e-commerce big earlier this month additionally unveiled the most recent iteration in its Trainium collection of chips, and outlined the event of the subsequent installment of these chips, complementing its cloud computing choices through Amazon Net Companies.
Information of the deal comes a pair months after OpenAI accomplished its transition to a for-profit mannequin, which provides it extra freedom to strike offers with traders aside from Microsoft, one of many firm’s earliest backers with a stake of 27%.
Amazon investing in OpenAI would mark the most recent in a collection of round offers within the AI area — main {hardware} producers and cloud suppliers strike offers with younger AI corporations to make use of their merchandise, whereas the upstarts decide to utilizing their knowledge facilities and chips for coaching their AI fashions.
This previous March, OpenAI invested $350 million of fairness into CoreWeave, which used the funds to purchase chips from its backer Nvidia. Those self same chips present compute to OpenAI, which will increase CoreWeave’s income and in the long run makes OpenAI’s stake extra worthwhile. Then in October, OpenAI signed a deal to select up a ten% stake in AMD and dedicated to utilizing the chipmaker’s AI GPUs, and in addition signed a chip utilization settlement with Broadcom that month. And in November, the ChatGPT maker signed a $38 billion cloud computing cope with Amazon.
OpenAI and Amazon didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
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