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FundingOpenAI raises $122 billion at an $852 billion valuation

In early 2026 OpenAI assembled a private funding round that grew from $110 billion to $122 billion in committed capital, closing on 31 March 2026 at an $852 billion post-money valuation, with Amazon, SoftBank, Nvidia and Microsoft among the backers.

FundingAmazon leads OpenAI's $110 billion funding round with $50 billion

In February 2026 OpenAI raised $110 billion at a $730 billion valuation, led by Amazon's $50 billion — at the time the largest private technology fundraise in history — a round that later closed at $122 billion.

ReleaseAmazon launches Nova 2 and Nova Forge at re:Invent 2025

On 2 December 2025, at AWS re:Invent, Amazon released the Nova 2 family, led by the reasoning model Nova 2 Lite. The same event introduced Nova Forge, made Nova Act generally available and launched Trainium3 UltraServers.

ReleaseAmazon Nova Premier becomes generally available

On 30 April 2025 AWS made Amazon Nova Premier generally available in Amazon Bedrock. The model was positioned as a teacher for distilling smaller Nova models and launched in three US regions.

ReleaseAmazon introduces Nova Sonic speech-to-speech model

On 8 April 2025 AWS introduced Amazon Nova Sonic, a single speech-to-speech model for voice applications. It launched with English voices and gained more languages by July 2025.

ReleaseAmazon launches Nova Act

Amazon announced Nova Act on 31 March 2025 as a developer research preview: a system that carries out tasks in web interfaces as small, testable commands written alongside Python code, and first used publicly inside Alexa+.

ReleaseAmazon introduces Alexa+

On 26 February 2025 Amazon introduced Alexa+, a generative-AI assistant priced at $19.99 a month and free for Prime members. Anthropic announced the same day that Claude was part of Alexa+.

ReleaseAmazon introduces the Nova foundation models

On 3 December 2024, at AWS re:Invent, Amazon introduced the Nova family of foundation models, starting with Nova Micro, Lite and Pro for understanding tasks and Nova Canvas and Reel for images and video. Nova Premier was announced for early 2025.

FundingAmazon invests another $4 billion in Anthropic

On 22 November 2024 Anthropic announced another $4 billion from Amazon, bringing the total to $8 billion. AWS became Anthropic's primary training partner as well as its primary cloud provider.

PartnershipAmazon hires Adept's co-founders and licenses its agent technology

In June 2024 Amazon hired Adept's co-founders and some of its team and licensed the startup's agent technology, multimodal models and datasets, while Adept refocused on solutions that enable agentic AI under a new CEO.

FundingScale AI closes a $1 billion Series F at a $13.8 billion valuation

In May 2024 Scale AI closed a $1 billion financing at a $13.8 billion valuation, led by existing investor Accel, with participation from existing backers such as NVIDIA and new ones including Amazon, Meta and Intel Capital.

PartnershipAmazon buys Talen's Cumulus data center campus next to the Susquehanna nuclear plant

In March 2024 Talen Energy sold its Cumulus data center campus beside the Susquehanna nuclear plant to Amazon Web Services for $650 million, with 960 MW of plant output going to AWS; a 2025 deal expanded it to 1,920 MW through 2042.

ReleaseAmazon makes Titan text models available and previews Titan Image Generator

On 29 November 2023, during AWS re:Invent, Amazon made the Titan Text Express and Titan Text Lite models generally available in Amazon Bedrock and previewed Titan Image Generator, which adds an invisible watermark to every image.

ReleaseAWS introduces the Amazon Q assistant

On 28 November 2023, at re:Invent, AWS introduced Amazon Q, a generative AI assistant for work, in preview. Answers respect users' permissions and cite sources, and Amazon Q Business became generally available on 30 April 2024.

FundingAmazon agrees to invest up to $4 billion in Anthropic

On 25 September 2023 Amazon agreed to invest up to $4 billion in Anthropic and take a minority stake. AWS became Anthropic's primary cloud provider and gave Anthropic access to Trainium and Inferentia chips.

ReleaseAWS announces Amazon Bedrock and Titan models

On 13 April 2023 AWS announced Amazon Bedrock, a service giving API access to foundation models from several providers, alongside its first Titan models. Bedrock became generally available on 28 September 2023.

ReleaseAmazon unveils the Amazon Go checkout-free store

On 5 December 2016 Amazon showed a prototype food store in Seattle, Amazon Go, where shoppers would be charged automatically instead of queuing at a checkout.

PartnershipThe Partnership on AI is established

A multi-stakeholder organisation formally established in late 2016 by researchers from six of the world's largest technology companies to study and share best practices in AI, advance public understanding and provide an open platform for discussion of AI's effects on society.

ReleaseAmazon unveils Prime Air drone delivery plan

On 1 December 2013 Jeff Bezos announced Prime Air on CBS's 60 Minutes: drones to deliver packages within 30 minutes, carrying up to 2.3 kg within about 16 km of a warehouse, pending FAA rules and years of testing.

AcquisitionAmazon agrees to acquire Kiva Systems

In March 2012 Amazon agreed to buy Kiva Systems, a maker of warehouse robots used by large retailers, for about $775 million in cash — the company's second-largest acquisition at the time.

ReleaseAmazon launches Mechanical Turk

Amazon's crowdsourcing marketplace, launched in 2005, lets requesters post small jobs called HITs that workers around the world complete for a fee. ImageNet's builders used it to verify images.