{"id":63767,"date":"2025-08-06T23:48:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T23:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/63767\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T23:48:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T23:48:12","slug":"aws-offers-openais-models-on-its-platform-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/63767\/","title":{"rendered":"AWS Offers OpenAI\u2019s Models on Its Platform for the First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the first time, OpenAI<\/a>\u2019s artificial intelligence models are available on a cloud computing platform outside of Microsoft<\/a>, its largest investor to date.<\/p>\n

AWS<\/a>, in competition with Microsoft Azure<\/a> for cloud market share, announced in a Tuesday (Aug. 5) press release<\/a> that it will offer OpenAI\u2019s two new open-weight models<\/a> on its Bedrock<\/a> platform.<\/p>\n

OpenAI is considered the marquee brand in AI, but its models have only been available in the cloud on Microsoft Azure. All of OpenAI\u2019s proprietary AI models are contractually exclusive to Microsoft, its early and largest investor.<\/p>\n

OpenAI released its gpt-oss models in 120 billion and 20 billion parameters Tuesday. These open-weight models are available to anyone, including AWS. OpenAI has not had an open model since GPT-2 in 2019.<\/p>\n

AWS\u2019 celebratory tone at getting access to OpenAI models was apparent in the Tuesday blog post<\/a> of its chief evangelist, Danilo Poccia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am happy to announce the availability of two new OpenAI models with open weights\u201d are now available on two of AWS\u2019 platforms, he wrote in the post.<\/p>\n

AWS created a landing page image featuring their two logos side by side, usually reserved for partners jointly announcing an alliance.<\/p>\n

While anyone can access all of OpenAI\u2019s models directly through its API rather than going through Microsoft Azure or AWS, enterprises need the robust compliance, security and expertise that hyperscalers provide.<\/p>\n

However, OpenAI\u2019s open-weight models are not truly open source in the sense that users cannot access the code and see what dataset was used to assess it for bias and other harms. OpenAI offered them under the Apache 2.0<\/a> license that lets anyone use, modify and distribute the models if there is proper attribution and a built-in grant of patent rights.<\/p>\n

\u201cOpenAI\u2019s open-weight models may not represent the \u2018leading-edge\u2019 models\u201d with capabilities \u201cmore similar\u201d to a lightweight version of the flagship GPT-4 model, but they \u201cdo fit well with Amazon\u2019s cost savings strategy,\u201d wrote BofA<\/a> analyst Justin Post in a research note shared with PYMNTS.<\/p>\n

AWS said in its Tuesday blog post that OpenAI\u2019s larger open-weight model gives enterprises 10 times more value for the price versus a comparable Gemini<\/a> model, 18 times more than DeepSeek<\/a> R1, and seven times over OpenAI\u2019s o4 model<\/a>. (Gemini and OpenAI o4-mini are proprietary; DeepSeek is open source.)<\/p>\n

Poccia said in his blog post that the models \u201cexcel at coding, scientific analysis and mathematical reasoning, with performance comparable to leading alternatives.\u201d The models also work with external tools and can be used in an \u201cagentic workflow.\u201d<\/p>\n

AWS, a subsidiary of Amazon<\/a>, already offers open models such as Meta<\/a>\u2019s Llama<\/a>, DeepSeek and Mistral<\/a>. It also offers Claude<\/a> from Anthropic<\/a>, in which Amazon has invested<\/a> $8 billion. Claude, a main rival of OpenAI\u2019s AI models, was not mentioned in the AWS press release.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe see the addition of OpenAI to the AWS platform, while far from a comprehensive deal, as a positive initial step in the relationship, suggesting the companies are interested in working together,\u201d Post said.<\/p>\n

For all PYMNTS AI coverage, subscribe to the daily AI Newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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