By Microsoft Corporate Blogs
Publication Date: 2026-04-27 13:00:00
Amended agreement provides long-term clarity
The rapid pace of innovation requires us to further develop our partnership for the benefit of our customers and both companies. Today we are announcing an amended agreement to simplify our partnership and the way we work together, based on flexibility, security and a focus on broadly delivering the benefits of AI. The greater predictability in the amended agreement strengthens our collective ability to build and operate AI platforms at scale, while giving both companies the flexibility to pursue new opportunities. The agreement states:
- Microsoft remains OpenAI’s primary cloud partner and OpenAI products will ship on Azure first unless Microsoft cannot and does not want to support the required features. OpenAI can now offer all of its products to customers on any cloud provider.
- Microsoft continues to retain a license to OpenAI IP for models and products…