Microsoft is losing its exclusive access to OpenAI\u2019s technology. OpenAI is now free to offer its products through any cloud provider, while Microsoft remains the primary partner. Amazon Web Services is first in line to benefit from this new freedom.<\/p>\n
Microsoft and OpenAI have amended their partnership effective immediately. The change ends Microsoft\u2019s years-long exclusivity as the cloud partner for OpenAI products. Azure will remain the primary cloud partner, and OpenAI products will still be rolled out on Azure first, unless Microsoft is unable or unwilling to support them.<\/p>\n
Microsoft\u2019s license to OpenAI\u2019s intellectual property runs through 2032 but is now non-exclusive. There is also a financial restructuring. Microsoft will no longer pay a revenue share to OpenAI. Conversely, OpenAI will continue to pay a percentage to Microsoft until 2030, but that amount is now capped and no longer tied to technological milestones\u2014including the potential achievement of artificial general intelligence.<\/p>\n
AWS is ready to go<\/p>\n
The revised agreement immediately opens the door for Amazon. AWS CEO Andy Jassy announced via LinkedIn that OpenAI models will become available to developers on Amazon Web Services \u201cin the coming weeks.\u201d \u201cWith this, builders will have even more choice to pick the right model for the right job,\u201d Jassy writes<\/a>.<\/p>\n In November 2025, OpenAI and AWS had already signed a multi-year cloud partnership worth $38 billion<\/a>. That deal led to tensions: Microsoft considered legal action in March 2026<\/a> because the AWS deal potentially violated the exclusive Azure agreement.<\/p>\n Clear path for IPO<\/p>\n The revision is part of a broader strategic shift at OpenAI. In September 2025, a preliminary agreement with Microsoft<\/a> had already paved the way for an IPO through the transition to a commercial company. In an internal memo cited by CNBC<\/a>, OpenAI acknowledged that the partnership with Microsoft had been fundamental but had limited enterprise growth.<\/p>\n Microsoft remains a shareholder in OpenAI and will continue to participate in the company\u2019s growth. Both parties announced they would continue to collaborate in other areas, such as scaling data center capacity, next-generation silicon, and cybersecurity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Microsoft is losing its exclusive access to OpenAI\u2019s technology. OpenAI is now free to offer its products through…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1395,322,420,580,320,157],"class_list":{"0":"post-19096","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-openai","8":"tag-amazon-web-services","9":"tag-aws","10":"tag-azure","11":"tag-chatgpt","12":"tag-microsoft","13":"tag-openai"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}