Amazon will offer OpenAI models to customers for first time

Amazon.com Inc. plans to make OpenAI’s new open artificial intelligence models available to customers, the first time the cloud computing giant has offered products from the leading AI startup.

The models can mimic the human process of reasoning, months after China’s DeepSeek gained global attention with its own open AI software. Amazon said it will offer the tools on its Bedrock and Sagemaker platforms, adding that their advanced reasoning capabilities make them suited for AI agents.

OpenAI announced the new “open weight” models on Tuesday and said they can carry out complex tasks like writing code and looking up information online on a user’s behalf.


Amid perceptions that Amazon is lagging behind its Big Tech peers in artificial intelligence, Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy has positioned Amazon Web Services as a kind of supermarket that sells a range of AI tools to businesses. The company’s Bedrock software platform was designed to make it easier to access other companies’ large language models, as well as Amazon’s own.

The company has partnered with Anthropic, investing $8 billion in the AI startup and using the relationship to bolster its credentials in AI services. AWS offers Anthropic’s Claude models to clients on its AI marketplace. Anthropic plans to release a new version of its most powerful AI model on Tuesday that the company claims is more capable at coding, research and data analysis.

Amazon shares rose 1.5% at 1:22 p.m. in New York.

Amazon last week projected weaker-than-expected operating incoming for the current quarter and trailed the sales growth of its main cloud rivals, leaving investors looking for signs that the company’s huge investments in AI are paying off.

During the second quarter, AWS revenue grew a little more than 17% to $30.9 billion, barely surpassing analysts’ average estimate of $30.8 billion.

Amazon last year named Matt Garman the cloud division’s CEO. A longtime AWS engineering leader who was previously sales chief, Garman succeeded Adam Selipsky.