
As soon as OpenAI announced that Microsoft, its major investor and cloud partner, would no longer have exclusive rights to its products, Amazon started to rejoice.
After the revised OpenAI/Microsoft deal was announced on Monday, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy tweeted, calling it a “very exciting announcement.” The agreement resolved OpenAI’s concerns about allowing AWS to offer its products. This issue took shape after the company signed a deal worth up to $50 billion with Amazon.
Amazon announced Tuesday that AWS’s Bedrock service includes OpenAI’s latest models, code writing service Codex, and new products for creating AI agents based on OpenAI. Bedrock is Amazon’s AI app building and model selection service.
Amazon calls its new agent service Bedrock Managed Agents. It is specifically designed to use OpenAI’s inference models, providing features such as agent orchestration and security.
“This is the beginning of a deeper collaboration between AWS and OpenAI,” Amazon promises in a blog post. And it will definitely be interesting to watch.
The Microsoft/OpenAI relationship has been deteriorating for some time, with each reportedly seeking comfort in the arms of their partner’s biggest rival. OpenAI switched to AWS and Oracle. From Microsoft to Humanity; The Redmond-based software giant is developing a new agent product powered by Claude.
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