AWS and OpenAI announce expanded partnership to bring frontier intelligence to the infrastructure you already trust - About Amazon

Ah, the 'infrastructure you already trust' — because nothing says trustworthy like a partnership between the company that records your bathroom conversations on a smart speaker and the company whose chatbot once told a man to drive a nail through his mirror. AWS and OpenAI have announced they will bring 'the latest OpenAI models' to Amazon Bedrock, along with Codex and some 'Managed Agents.' All in 'limited preview,' of course, which is corporate for 'we haven't fully tested this with real users yet.'

What's the actual news here? The two AI titans are cosying up, sharing models and agents like nervous parents at a playdate who don't want to admit their kids are a bit unhinged. Amazon gets to slap the OpenAI sticker on its cloud offering — a seal of frontier-ness — while OpenAI gets access to the world's largest cloud customer base. A win-win, provided you ignore that the 'infrastructure you already trust' is the same one that laid off thousands of workers last week to fund AI spending.

And the 'limited preview' is a marvellous shield: if the models hallucinate financial advice or the agents start booking non-existent meetings, AWS can just shrug and say 'well, it was only a preview.' But don't worry, businesses will clamour to be first to deploy these glorified dice rolls in production. After all, if you can't trust a company that knows your shopping habits and another that knows your darkest chatbot fantasies, whom can you trust?