Microsoft and OpenAI end exclusive partnership, terminate revenue sharing arrangement

Aimpact News, April 28 (UTC+8): Microsoft and OpenAI signed a new cooperation agreement, ending their exclusive authorization relationship and reducing how much they depend on each other. According to Monday’s announcement, Microsoft will no longer exclusively authorize OpenAI technology, and the revenue-sharing arrangement will be terminated at the same time; however, Microsoft still retains an OpenAI stake valued at more than $135 billion. Under the new agreement, OpenAI can offer all products to customers of any cloud provider, ending Microsoft’s status as the exclusive cloud partner. Revenue sharing will continue until 2030, and technology licensing will be kept until 2032, with the previously complex AGI provisions removed. In September, Microsoft announced that it would purchase models from competitor Anthropic to reduce reliance on OpenAI, and its recently launched Copilot Researcher integrates GPT and Claude models. When OpenAI received $11 billion in funding from Amazon, SoftBank, and NVIDIA in February, both sides previously emphasized that they remain close allies. Microsoft stock (MSFT) fell slightly about 0.3% that day, to $423 per share.