OpenAI Secures AWS Distribution for Frontier Platform in $110B Multi-Cloud Deal

2026-03-11

OpenAI recently raised $110 billion at a $730 billion pre-money valuation, including a $50 billion Amazon investment granting AWS exclusive distribution of Frontier's stateful AI runtime while Azure retains exclusive stateless API access. The deal expands OpenAI's AWS spending by $100 billion and formalizes a multi-cloud AI deployment split between Azure APIs and AWS stateful agent infrastructure.