Amazon is reportedly in talks to invest $50 billion in OpenAI

OpenAI, the company already a total of $500 billionhas announced that it is on the hunt another $100 billion in Investment. Such a round of financing would increase the company’s value to a titanic $830 billion. The Wall Street Journal now to announce that Amazon can provide at least $50 billion in cash that has disrupted the record.

Not much is known about the potential partnership, although the Journal reported that Amazon’s CEO, Andy Jassy, ​​is leading discussions with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. TechCrunch has reached out to Amazon and OpenAI for comment.

In seeking additional funding, OpenAI is said to have been in talks with independent investors in the Middle East and the New York Times. you have written that the startup has had additional discussions with Nvidia, Microsoft and SoftBank. A financial agreement is expected to close at the end of Q1.

Such a partnership between Amazon and OpenAI would be particularly interesting given Amazon’s close relationship with OpenAI competitor Anthropic. Amazon’s AWS then The first cloud is a training provider to Anthropic, and the company has invested at least $8 billion in Anthropic. Amazon recently reopened $11 billion data center campus in Indiana, designed to run only Anthropic species.