Microsoft and OpenAI revise partnership for flexible cloud access and non exclusive licensing
Microsoft and OpenAI announced an amended partnership agreement to provide long-term clarity and flexibility as both companies continued advancing artificial intelligence technology. The updated terms represented a significant restructuring of how the two organisations operated together while maintaining their core collaboration. Under the amended agreement, Microsoft remained OpenAI's primary cloud partner, with OpenAI products shipping first on Azure. However, a critical change allowed OpenAI to serve all its products to customers across any cloud provider. This shift represented a meaningful expansion of OpenAI's operational independence while preserving Microsoft's privileged position as the initial deployment partner, unless Microsoft could not or chose not to support necessary capabilities. The intellectual property framework was restructured to provide both companies with greater certainty. Microsoft continued holding a licence to OpenAI's intellectual property f...