Amazon's Massive $10B OpenAI Overture
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🗓️ 20 December 2025
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Amazon makes a bold $10B overture to OpenAI in ongoing talks. Strategic investment secures model access for Alexa and beyond. AI talent wars escalate alongside funding battles.
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| 0:00.0 | Amazon is reportedly in talks with OpenAI to invest $10 billion into the startup. |
| 0:06.0 | These are these kind of circular deals that we see being very popular today, |
| 0:10.2 | where essentially Amazon will invest $10 billion into Open AI, |
| 0:13.7 | with kind of the understanding that Open AI is going to turn around |
| 0:16.2 | and spend those $10 billion on AWS for compute. |
| 0:19.5 | This is good for both companies because Open AI gets, you know, 100 or gets, you know, the $10 billion on AWS for compute. This is good for both companies because Open AI gets, |
| 0:22.2 | you know, 100 or gets, you know, the $10 billion investment, which is amazing for them. |
| 0:26.6 | And Amazon gets a chunk of the company, plus they get to mark up, you know, $10 billion in |
| 0:32.4 | revenue to AWS when that money gets spent back. So it's kind of the money goes both ways and with companies that |
| 0:39.0 | are, you know, really heavily reliant on investors and the stock market. It's great for Amazon's |
| 0:44.1 | stock price to say, look, we got another $10 billion. And it's great for opening eye to say, |
| 0:47.7 | look, someone invested another $10 billion into our company. It's interesting that the people |
| 0:52.2 | investing money, though, are chipmakers and, |
| 0:55.1 | you know, anyone making hardware that opening I needs to buy or data centers, people like Oracle. |
| 0:59.2 | And then, of course, we have companies like Amazon with AWS and all of their web servers. |
| 1:03.6 | So this is an interesting deal that seems to be more and more popular. We're going to break down |
| 1:07.8 | the deal who broke it and what the sources are saying about all of this. Before we get into it, I wanted to mention if you want to build an AI tool or an |
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