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By Matt Day and Edward Ludlow

April 28, 2026 at 5:00 PM UTC

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April 28, 2026 at 5:27 PM UTC

For the first three years of the artificial intelligence boom, Amazon.com Inc. watched as cloud customers seeking the latest and greatest from OpenAI took their business to Microsoft Corp.

But the day after Amazon’s biggest cloud rival agreed to drop its exclusive rights to resell OpenAI products, Amazon says it will finally be able to make the ChatGPT maker’s AI models available to its own customers.