Why OpenAI is pouring billions into Amazon's Cloud?

Today, we’re looking at OpenAI’s most revealing move yet, a $38B partnership with AWS to supercharge its infrastructure. We’re also looking at the easiest way to catch a fake AI video and why it won’t work for long. For now. For now.

In today’s post:

• OpenAI just signed a $38B deal

• The #1 way to spot a fake AI video

• Can AI help tell better stories or just cheaper ones?

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AWS will power OpenAI’s next generation of AI

OpenAI just partnered with Amazon Web Services in a deal worth $38 billion. It’s one of the biggest infrastructure commitments in AI history and it starts now.

Here’s everything you need to know:

• OpenAI will run its most advanced AI models on AWS, starting immediately.

• AWS is giving OpenAI access to clusters with hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA GPUs.

• The deal allows expansion to tens of millions of CPUs over time, a major scale-up.

• Amazon EC2 UltraServers will power training and inference for frontier models like ChatGPT.

• This isn't just compute, it's optimized architecture for low latency and high efficiency.

• OpenAI's open weight models are already popular on Amazon Bedrock among major companies.

• AWS’s secure, scalable infrastructure is now core to OpenAI’s growth strategy.

This move shows how centralized AI infrastructure is becoming and just how expensive it is to stay competitive. OpenAI now has the scale it needs. But the deeper story is this: whoever controls the infrastructure controls the future of AI.

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RESEARCH

AI videos are getting good but there’s still one giveaway

AI-generated videos are flooding your feed. And while they’re more convincing than ever, one dead-simple trick still works.

Here’s everything you need to know:

• If a video looks pixelated, blurry, or oddly low-res be skeptical.

• AI creators often intentionally degrade quality to hide telltale artifacts.

• Today’s tools like Sora and Veo still struggle with fine details in clear video.

• Short clips (6 –10 seconds) are more likely to be AI due to high generation costs.

• Watch for inconsistencies: unnatural skin, weird background motion, shifting patterns.

• Compression and resolution tricks can blur over these red flags.

• The best defense isn’t just your eyes, it’s checking where the content came from.

We're entering a phase where the truthiness of video is dead. You can’t assume anything is real just because it looks “real enough.” The only thing that will matter going forward is context who made it, where it came from, and whether it can be verified. It’s time to stop trusting pixels and start trusting provenance.

BREAKTHROUGH

A $3B data center is being built to make AI-powered films

Utopai East, a new joint venture from LG’s founding family and AI startup Utopai Studios wants to reshape how movies get made. Not with scripts, but with servers.

Here’s everything you need to know:

• The JV is investing in AI-specific infrastructure to streamline film and TV production.

• Utopai will provide the tech and workflows; Stock Farm Road is funding and connecting industry players.

• Their goal: scale Korean IP globally and lower production costs with AI tools.

• A 3-gigawatt data center in South Korea will power it all, a backbone for AI creativity.

• Utopai insists AI won’t replace creatives, but amplify what writers and directors can do.

• Every AI model they use is licensed, aiming to sidestep the ethical minefield of scraped data.

• The vision: AI makes content creation exponential, not incremental without cutting humans out.

This isn’t about whether AI can replace artists. It’s about whether creative work can evolve without being gutted. If Utopai pulls this off empowering filmmakers while building the infrastructure behind them, they might set a model the rest of Hollywood can’t ignore.

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