Sam Altman’s blowtorch to his rivals is so sizzling, it even features a new partnership with Amazon Internet Providers.

As OpenAI introduced two open-weight reasoning models with capabilities on par with its o-series, Amazon announced that the brand new fashions would turn out to be accessible on AWS on Tuesday. That is the primary time that OpenAI fashions will probably be provided by AWS, the corporate confirmed to TechCrunch. They are going to be accessible as a mannequin alternative with Amazon AI companies Bedrock and SageMaker AI.

Whereas anybody can obtain the fashions by way of Hugging Face, Amazon is providing these fashions with OpenAI’s full information and approval, as Dmitry Pimenov, the mannequin maker’s product lead, indicated within the announcement. A spokesperson described the providing as much like how Amazon provided open mannequin DeepSeek-R1 earlier this 12 months.

It is a juicy aggressive transfer for each corporations. For AWS, it lastly places the cloud large in the identical sentence as the most important mannequin maker, OpenAI.

Till now, AWS has greatest been generally known as a serious host and a financial backer of Anthropic’s Claude, one in every of OpenAI’s largest rivals. AWS affords Claude, together with different fashions from makers comparable to Cohere, DeepSeek, Meta, and Mistral, in addition to its personal home-grown ones in its AI companies. Particularly, Bedrock permits AWS prospects to construct and host generative AI apps utilizing fashions of their alternative. SageMaker, then again, permits AWS prospects to coach, and even construct, their very own AI fashions largely for analytics makes use of.

Whereas AWS’s final rival, Microsoft, hasn’t had a lock on OpenAI models since January, Azure remains to be OpenAI’s most vital cloud companion to this point. OpenAI even introduced that Microsoft is providing variations of those two new fashions, too, optimized for Home windows gadgets.

Watching Microsoft win an rising quantity of cloud enterprise with OpenAI has been a public ache in Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s neck. Simply final week throughout Amazon’s quarterly earnings call, Jassy was pounded with questions from Wall Road analysts about how the corporate was dropping floor in AI to rivals, significantly Microsoft.

As an illustration, JPMorgan analyst Doug Anmuth requested Jassy to elucidate “considerably sooner cloud development among the many quantity two and quantity three gamers within the house,” referring to Microsoft and Google. Later, Morgan Stanley analyst Brian Nowak informed Jassy that Wall Road thinks “AWS is falling behind in GenAI with considerations about share loss, friends, and so forth.”

Jassy responded with a minutes-long diatribe that included this barb at Redmond: “I feel the second participant is about 65% of the dimensions of the AWS.”

In the meantime, one other AWS competitor, Oracle, reported that it signed a $30 billion a year deal with OpenAI to supply knowledge middle companies. Which means that OpenAI plans to pay Oracle extra every year than all of its different cloud companies prospects mixed. Till now, AWS had been ignored of any OpenAI-related glory.

As for the way such a transfer with AWS advantages OpenAI: The AI supplier’s relationship with Microsoft is notoriously strained, as the 2 are reportedly renegotiating their long-term partnership deal. What higher manner for OpenAI to strengthen its place than to cozy up the most important cloud supplier, even when, initially, on a small scale?

As well as, this partnership permits swaths of AWS enterprise prospects to simply experiment with utilizing OpenAI fashions with their hosted AI apps.

In the meantime Altman will get to undercut Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg with this transfer as effectively. As OpenAI releases these two high-performing fashions below an Apache 2.0 open supply license, Meta not too long ago admitted that it probably won’t continue to open source all of its upcoming “superintelligence” models.