By Proactive
Publication Date: 2026-04-27 15:46:00
Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ:MSFT) and OpenAI (Unlisted:OPAI) have announced a sweeping overhaul of their partnership that strips away the exclusivity protections at the heart of their original agreement, giving the ChatGPT maker freedom to sell its products across any cloud provider, including rivals Amazon and Google.
The amended deal, announced Monday, ends Microsoft’s revenue share payments to OpenAI entirely, while capping the payments OpenAI owes Microsoft through 2030 at a fixed ceiling independent of OpenAI’s technology progress.
Microsoft’s license to OpenAI’s intellectual property will continue through 2032 but will no longer be exclusive.
Azure will retain first-launch rights for new OpenAI products, but only in cases where Microsoft can and chooses to support the required capabilities — a carve-out that opens the door for OpenAI to…