OpenAI Clinches AWS Deal in Bid to Win Government Contracts

OpenAI on Friday signed a new contract with Amazon Web Services to sell its AI to U.S. government employees for both classified and unclassified work, according to two people with direct knowledge of the agreement.

The contract will allow OpenAI to support the Pentagon through a deal it hastily won late last month after the agency ditched its current AI provider, Anthropic. AWS is already a large cloud provider to numerous U.S. agencies and has agreed to sell OpenAI products to other U.S. government customers, these people said. Landing government contracts could help OpenAI win large corporate customers, which often regard high-profile government work as a sign that a tech provider can be trusted.