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Infra2026-04-30 · source-backed
The deal is backed by a $50B Amazon investment and 2GW Trainium capacity commitment. GPT-5.5 pricing: $5/$30 per 1M input/output tokens with 1M context. For builders on AWS, you can now use GPT-5.5 with existing IAM, PrivateLink, and CloudTrail. No new security model. The multi-cloud era for OpenAI models is here.
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The largest AI infrastructure deal in history: Amazon invests $50B in OpenAI ($15B initial + $35B conditional) to make AWS the exclusive third-party cloud for OpenAI Frontier — a platform for deploying teams of AI agents with shared context, built-in governance, and enterprise...
First-party pricing, counts toward AWS commitments, Codex via CLI and IDE plugins for VS Code, JetBrains, and Xcode, across commercial and GovCloud (AWS). This removes the procurement and compliance wall for AWS shops that couldn't touch OpenAI under existing contracts. Distri...
The full family, Sol, Terra, and Luna, is generally available on Amazon Bedrock with IAM and VPC controls (LLM Boss, AWS). Sol targets coding, biology, and cybersecurity agentic work. Terra runs everyday tasks at about half GPT-5.5's cost, and Luna optimizes for speed. The thr...
The most consequential partnership in AI just got rewritten. Bloomberg reports that Microsoft and OpenAI restructured their deal: Microsoft loses exclusive rights to resell OpenAI models, and in exchange stops paying revenue share on OpenAI products it resells through Azure. O...
Alongside the July 29 launch of ChatGPT for Academic Researchers, free GPT-5.6 Sol Pro for 10,000 researchers this summer scaling to 100,000 through 2027 backed by over $250 million, OpenAI disclosed efficiency work on the harness underlying Codex and ChatGPT Work: 54% fewer o...
OpenAI shipped GPT-5.5 on April 23, six weeks after 5.4. The capability jump is real: 82.7% on Terminal-Bench 2.0 vs Claude Opus 4.7's 69.4%. The Pro tier nearly doubles Opus 4.7 on FrontierMath Tier 4 at 39.6% vs 22.9%. It uses 40% fewer tokens on Codex tasks while matching 5...
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