Awkward Partnership Between Microsoft and OpenAI
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Amazon is bringing OpenAI's models and Codex to AWS after Microsoft’s shift away from exclusivity, giving cloud customers more ways to use AI tools.
Microsoft's longstanding partnership with OpenAI has gone through various iterations in the last year. The latest version, disclosed earlier this week, will see the companies maintain a relationship but give each other more flexibility.
Microsoft has been investing in OpenAI for the past seven years, pouring $13.75 billion into the generative AI pioneer over that time as the two companies more tightly tied their AI futures to each other through various exclusivity deals.
Microsoft and OpenAI have announced a significant amendment to their partnership, with the duo moving from being an exclusive couple towards a more open relationship. Tuba Siddiqui's natural personal care brand,
Learn more Microsoft’s partnership with OpenAI just took a big turn. On April 28, Microsoft (MSFT) said it will no longer pay a revenue share to OpenAI. At the same time, Microsoft’s license to OpenAI’s technology is no longer exclusive through 2032,
Microsoft gets to offer OpenAI's tech to its cloud customers and doesn't have to pay for it. "We fully plan to exploit it," Nadella said.
Microsoft's and OpenAI's stories were once tightly linked. But now Microsoft stands to gain from Anthropic's rapid ascent. In conjunction with Microsoft's $5 billion Anthropic investment made last fall,
Alphabet and Microsoft crushed Q1 estimates on the same day, with Google Cloud up 63% and Microsoft's AI business hitting a $37 billion run rate.