Overview
- Microsoft and OpenAI announced Monday a rewritten agreement that ends Microsoft’s exclusive access to OpenAI’s models and lets OpenAI offer its products on any cloud provider.
- OpenAI will still launch new products on Microsoft’s Azure first unless Microsoft cannot or chooses not to support the needed capabilities.
- Microsoft’s license to OpenAI’s models and products now runs non‑exclusively through 2032, and Microsoft remains a major shareholder in OpenAI.
- OpenAI will pay Microsoft a capped revenue share through 2030, and Microsoft will no longer share revenue with OpenAI.
- The revised terms scrap AGI‑triggered provisions, ease contract risks tied to OpenAI’s up‑to‑$50 billion Amazon deal, and give enterprises clearer multi‑cloud choices that could also smooth OpenAI’s path to an IPO.