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Amazon’s $50B OpenAI Bet Reshapes AI Race While Crypto Markets Watch

Amazon’s $50B OpenAI Bet Reshapes AI Race While Crypto Markets Watch

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2026-01-29 22:13:01
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Amazon's potential $50 billion investment in OpenAI WOULD mark one of history's largest private tech deals, valuing the AI pioneer at $830 billion. CEO Andy Jassy is negotiating directly with Sam Altman, signaling Amazon's aggressive pivot toward AI dominance despite recent layoffs.

The move creates Ripple effects across tech and crypto markets. Amazon already holds an $8 billion stake in Anthropic, OpenAI's rival, creating a bifurcated AI strategy. This dual positioning gives Amazon unprecedented leverage in the AI ecosystem - a development crypto traders are monitoring for cloud-computing demand spikes that could benefit tokens like FIL (storage), RNDR (GPU power), and AI-focused projects.

Meanwhile, the massive capital deployment highlights growing institutional appetite for disruptive tech. Crypto analysts note parallels between Amazon's AI bets and recent blockchain investments, with smart money increasingly hedging across both sectors. Tokens like AGI (SingularityNET) and FET (Fetch.ai) saw 5-7% upticks on the news.

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