Amazon, through its subsidiary AWS, will provide cloud computing services to OpenAI under a multi-year agreement valued at approximately $38 billion (around €33 billion at the current exchange rate). Thanks to the partnership, the creator of ChatGPT will have access to hundreds of thousands of Nvidia graphics processors to train and run its artificial intelligence models. The agreement highlights the AI industry's enormous appetite for computing power, driven by the search for technologies capable of matching or surpassing human intelligence. The news has caused Amazon's stock to rise. AWS has extensive experience running large-scale AI infrastructures "securely, reliably, with clusters exceeding 500,000 chips," according to a statement. AWS's leadership in cloud infrastructure, combined with OpenAI's pioneering advancements in generative AI, will help millions of users continue to derive value from ChatGPT, according to the official statement.

An Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage, the cloud computing division of the US tech giant, caused a widespread disruption of digital services worldwide on Monday morning. The company confirmed "an increase in error rates and latency across multiple services" in its US-East-1 region, based in Northern Virginia, one of the most widely used globally for hosting websites and applications.