{"text":[[{"start":9.1,"text":"OpenAI will expand its offering to Amazon’s cloud customers, enabling the start-up to distribute its models and applications more widely after renegotiating exclusive terms with Microsoft. "}],[{"start":21.15,"text":"The ChatGPT maker announced on Tuesday that it would bring its most advanced AI models to AWS, through the Amazon cloud unit’s Bedrock AI developer platform. OpenAI’s Codex coding agent will also be made available. "}],[{"start":35.3,"text":"Amazon’s expanded partnership with OpenAI comes after it agreed in February to invest up to $50bn in the start-up and the AI lab on Monday renegotiated the terms of its deal with Microsoft to loosen its exclusivity provisions."}],[{"start":50.449999999999996,"text":"Denise Dresser, OpenAI’s chief revenue officer, told an event in San Francisco that customers wanted to use the start-up’s frontier models in a “trusted environment” as they moved to deploy agentic tools — AI bots that can operate independently under human instructions — in their businesses. "}],[{"start":68.69999999999999,"text":"“[Customers are] no longer in the mindset of experimentation and pilots,” she said. "}],[{"start":74.94999999999999,"text":"OpenAI has been seeking to uncouple from Microsoft, its largest shareholder, and develop a series of partnerships with rival companies to sell its models and acquire data centre capacity."}],[{"start":86.35,"text":"Amazon in February invested $15bn in OpenAI’s latest funding round as part of a commitment that would see it invest a further $35bn either when the AI lab goes public or manages to build powerful AI dubbed “artificial general intelligence” or AGI. "}],[{"start":103.35,"text":"The start-up has in turn signed deals to procure $138bn in data centre capacity from the cloud giant. "}],[{"start":111.35,"text":"Following Tuesday’s announcement, Amazon will roll out a service it has called “Amazon Bedrock Managed Agents, powered by OpenAI”. AWS customers will be able to use OpenAI’s Frontier service to deploy fleets of AI agents to carry out tasks. "}],[{"start":127.25,"text":"The cloud giant’s Bedrock service, which helps software developers access a host of AI models from providers, including Anthropic, Meta and Mistral, will include OpenAI’s latest 5.5 model in the coming weeks. "}],[{"start":140.45,"text":"“From the very early days . . . customers have asked us how to get OpenAI models inside AWS,” said AWS chief executive Matt Garman. “It’s not just about bringing the AI models, but it’s innovating together.” "}],[{"start":152.75,"text":"The Amazon-OpenAI deal had until recently been under legal threat from Microsoft, which argued it might breach exclusivity terms in its own contract with the start-up, the FT previously reported. "}],[{"start":164.7,"text":"Microsoft on Monday concluded a deal that will permit OpenAI to make its models available on rival cloud platforms in exchange for Microsoft receiving better terms around revenue sharing and the removal of a contentious “AGI clause” that could have cut it off from OpenAI’s technology."}],[{"start":182.64999999999998,"text":"Amazon is also a shareholder in Anthropic. It has invested $8bn since 2023 and this month disclosed plans to invest up to $25bn in the group alongside a $100bn cloud contract. "}],[{"start":204.29999999999998,"text":""}]],"url":"https://audio.ftcn.net.cn/album/a_1777438256_4170.mp3"}