An upset Microsoft may have a message for OpenAI and Amazon: If you want to take a bet on your lawyers, we are … – The Times of India

All may not be well between Microsoft and one of its biggest partners — OpenAI. According to a report in Financial Times, the reason for apparent disagreement is OpenAI’s recent $50 billion partnership with ecommerce giant Amazon. What has reportedly not gone well with Microsoft is that among the several agreements signed between the two companies — Amazon and OpenAI — last month, there is one that makes Amazon Web Services (AWS) the exclusive third-party cloud provider for Frontier, which is OpenAI’s enterprise platform for building and running AI agents. When Microsoft first invested in OpenAI, the two companies locked in one rule above everything else: All access to OpenAI’s models must go through Microsoft’s Azure cloud. No exceptions. That deal made Azure the backbone of the AI revolution. This means that every company using ChatGPT’s API has to pay Microsoft for the privilege. The arrangement has been highly lucrative for…