OpenAI terminates its exclusive partnership with Microsoft

Since Microsoft invested $1 billion in OpenAI in 2019The unique partnership between the two companies has become one of the strongest and most important in the AI ​​industry. Today, OpenAI is owned by Microsoft together he announced The revised agreement will allow the company to move beyond Microsoft’s Azure and “deliver all of its products to customers on any type of cloud provider.”

The announcement makes it clear that Microsoft will continue to license OpenAI’s IP and brands until 2032 and that Azure will remain OpenAI’s “cloud partner” during that time (if Microsoft continues to honor this). But Microsoft’s license “is now not exclusive,” the announcement read, allowing OpenAI to build its models through other major cloud providers moving forward.

Although OpenAI will continue to pay the same 20 percent to Microsoft under the revised agreement, all payments will be limited to an unspecified cap and will be guaranteed to expire until 2030. he managed to calculate with the confidence of a common sense.