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OpenAI just told Microsoft the terms of their breakup.
After years of a partnership that gave Microsoft quasi-exclusive rights to OpenAI's tech, Sam Altman announced they've "updated" the deal.
The AGI clause, which was an open-ended arrangement where Microsoft held preferential access until OpenAI built something sufficiently intelligent, is gone.
Microsoft now has a non-exclusive license through 2032, revenue share ends by 2030, and OpenAI already has a $38B deal with AWS. When you're generating $2B a month, the negotiating dynamic shifts pretty fundamentally.
Azure remains OpenAI's primary cloud partner, but "primary" isn't "exclusive," and that gap is where the whole power dynamic changed. Microsoft got the most expensive non-exclusivity clause in tech history.
This shows OpenAI is actively building a multi-cloud, multi-partner future before its IPO. The AI infrastructure layer is being redistributed, and where OpenAI's models live will shape which platforms get the best access to them.
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