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Microsoft and OpenAI Rip Up Their Exclusive Partnership

2026-07-07

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Summary

On April 27, 2026, Microsoft and OpenAI restructured their landmark partnership, ending Microsoft's exclusive cloud rights to OpenAI's models — which went live on Amazon's AWS within 24 hours.
Microsoft stops paying OpenAI a revenue share (OpenAI keeps paying Microsoft, now capped, through 2030), and the murky 'AGI clause' that could have let OpenAI exit the deal was removed.
Azure stays OpenAI's primary cloud with a four-month head start on new models, but OpenAI can now sell to any cloud, including Google and Amazon.

The question

Loosening the Microsoft-OpenAI alliance intensifies the cloud AI arms race.

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