OpenAI Just Dropped $38B on AWS 🤯

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OpenAI, the Microsoft-backed AI leader, signed a landmark $38 billion cloud deal with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to secure the immense computing power needed for its models.

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Here's what's new today in the Horizon AI

• OpenAI and Amazon Sign Massive $38 Billion Cloud Deal🤝

• Amazon Music, Alexa, and AI Integration (Alexa Plus)

• AI Tutorial: How to Automate Repetitive Office Tasks with AI

• AI Tools to check out

• AI Findings/Resources

• The Latest in AI and Tech 💡

AI News

OPENAI

OpenAI and Amazon Sign Massive $38 Billion Cloud Deal

OpenAI and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have announced a multi-year, $38 billion strategic partnership that shifts a substantial portion of OpenAI's massive computing needs to Amazon's cloud platform.

Details:

• The deal grants OpenAI access to AWS's world-class infrastructure, including hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA chips, with the capacity to scale to millions of CPUs.

• This computing power is essential for running and scaling OpenAI's core Artificial Intelligence workloads, from serving inference for current products like ChatGPT to training its next-generation frontier models.

• The seven-year agreement signifies OpenAI's commitment to diversifying its compute partners, moving beyond its long-standing and previously exclusive relationship with Microsoft Azure. The deal underscores the unprecedented, multi-trillion-dollar demand for AI infrastructure in the technology industry.

By balancing its workload between AWS and Microsoft, OpenAI ensures its ability to continue scaling its advanced models, underscoring the vast capital expenditure involved.

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TOGETHER WITH ROKU

Find your customers on Roku this Black Friday

As with any digital ad campaign, the important thing is to reach streaming audiences who will convert. To that end, Roku’s self-service Ads Manager stands ready with powerful segmentation and targeting options. After all, you know your customers, and we know our streaming audience.

Worried it’s too late to spin up new Black Friday creative? With Roku Ads Manager, you can easily import and augment existing creative assets from your social channels. We also have AI-assisted upscaling, so every ad is primed for CTV.

Once you’ve done this, then you can easily set up A/B tests to flight different creative variants and Black Friday offers. If you’re a Shopify brand, you can even run shoppable ads directly on-screen so viewers can purchase with just a click of their Roku remote.

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AMAZON

Amazon Music, Alexa, and AI Integration (Alexa Plus)

Amazon has launched Alexa Plus, a completely rebuilt, next-generation voice assistant powered by generative AI. This upgrade moves the assistant beyond simple, rigid commands into a conversational, agentic platform that can understand context, remember user preferences, and orchestrate complex tasks across its ecosystem.

Details:

• Alexa Plus is powered by a new Large Language Model (LLM), making conversations more natural, contextual, and personalized. It can hold ongoing dialogues and reference previous commands.

• The new system allows Alexa to act as an "agent" to complete complex, multi-step tasks across thousands of services. Examples include:

  1. Booking tickets with services like Ticketmaster.

  2. Making dinner reservations with OpenTable.

  3. Managing your smart home (e.g., "Check if anyone walked the dog recently" using camera footage).

• The AI integration allows for finding and playing music using highly vague or contextual descriptions (e.g., "Play that upbeat country song I heard last week about driving," or "Play music that matches my cooking mood").

• Alexa Plus has partnered with platforms like Suno to allow users to generate custom, AI-created songs on the fly using only a voice prompt.

• Availability and Cost:

  • Free for all existing Amazon Prime members.

  • Available as a standalone subscription for $19.99 per month for non-Prime members.

  • Compatible with most newer Echo devices, Fire TV, and Fire tablets.

Alexa Plus fundamentally changes how users interact with services like Amazon Music, making music discovery and playback significantly more natural and intuitive.

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AI Tutorial

How to Automate Repetitive Office Tasks with AI

Tired of spending hours on reports, emails, and meeting notes?
Zapier AI enables you to connect your favorite apps (such as Gmail, Google Sheets, Slack, and ChatGPT) so that your routine tasks can run automatically.

1. Choose a repetitive task, for instance.

• Summarize meeting notes

• Draft email replies

• Send daily reports

2. Create a Zap by going to zapier.com 

• Choose a Trigger App (like Gmail or Google Sheets).

• Select a trigger event (e.g., "New email received").

3. Add an AI Step

• Click + Add Action → AI by Zapier or ChatGPT.

• Enter a prompt like: "Summarize this email in 2 lines and list action items."

• Map the text or data from your trigger.

4. Choose Where Results Go by adding another step to:

• Post to Slack

• Add tasks in ClickUp/Todoist

• Update a Google Sheet

5. Run a test, check the output, and click "Publish."

Zapier will now run the workflow automatically every time the trigger happens

AI Tools to check out

🔑 Multifactor: Password manager built for secure sharing.

🎶 Pianolyze: Learn any piano song using AI/ML, right in your browser.

🎬 Odyssey: AI video you can both watch and interact with in real-time.

📜 Aden: Workforce certification by AI training agents.

🔍 Asimov: A unified interface for AI Vector Search.

TOGETHER WITH ROKU

CTV ads made easy: Black Friday edition

As with any digital ad campaign, the important thing is to reach streaming audiences who will convert. Roku’s self-service Ads Manager stands ready with powerful segmentation and targeting — plus creative upscaling tools that transform existing assets into CTV-ready video ads. Bonus: we’re gifting you $5K in ad credits when you spend your first $5K on Roku Ads Manager. Just sign up and use code GET5K. Terms apply.

Use code GET5K now

AI Findings/Resources

🚀 Take a look at what people are building with Claude Skills

🗣️ Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang dismisses AI spending concerns

💬 ChatGPT's policy has not changed concerning legal or medical-advice output

💼 ‘Godfather of AI’ Geoffrey Hinton warns that social choice threatens jobs, not just AI

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