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Amazon is reportedly in talks to invest $50B in OpenAI
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The Wall Street Journal is now reporting that Amazon may contribute at least $50 billion of that record-breaking investment.
In its pursuit of additional funding, OpenAI has also reportedly been having discussions with sovereign wealth funds in the Middle East, and The New York Times has written that the startup has held additional talks with Nvidia, Microsoft, and SoftBank.
The funding deal is expected to close by the end of Q1.
Such a partnership between Amazon and OpenAI would be particularly interesting because of Amazon’s close ties to the OpenAI competitor Anthropic.
Amazon also recently opened an $11 billion data center campus in Indiana, designed to exclusively run Anthropic models.