The move comes as many companies are increasingly looking to agents as a way to boost employee productivity and automate rote chores.

Amazon announced what it called a “major expansion” of its partnership with ChatGPT maker OpenAI on Tuesday, a day after the artificial intelligence company said it was loosening its ties to longtime backer Microsoft.

Amazon, Alphabet, Meta and Microsoft report quarterly results after the bell, and OpenAI is likely to be a big topic across the board.

Amazon has expanded its partnership with OpenAI, bringing the AI firm's latest models and agent technology to AWS just after OpenAI ended its exclusivity with Microsoft. Apple, meanwhile, is pursuing a quieter 'invisible AI' strategy focused on deeply ...

Amazon is reporting increased profits and net sales during its fiscal first quarter, helped by surging growth in its prominent cloud computing unit.

Just one day after OpenAI announced that Microsoft would no longer have exclusive access to its models, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy announced that the models will be available to AWS customers within weeks.

Microsoft's longstanding partnership with OpenAI has gone through various iterations in the last year. The latest version, disclosed earlier this week, will see the companies maintain a relationship but give each other more flexibility.