Term Clarity The rapid pace of innovation requires us to continue to evolve our partnership to benefit our customers and both companies. Today, we are announcing an amended agreement to simplify our partnership and the way we work together,

Things have changed since Microsoft and OpenAI announced a broad agreement following OpenAI's restructuring in October.

The deal allows the startup to sell products across any cloud provider and marks a turning point in one of the AI boom’s highest-profile partnerships.

Microsoft is rolling out more autonomous Copilot features across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, while OpenAI’s Codex evolves into a daily driver for knowledge work. The updates mark a shift from AI as a passive assistant to an active agent capable ...

Elon Musk, who split from OpenAI years after cofounding it as a nonprofit in 2015, said it was putting commercial interests over the public’s. A company lawyer said Mr. Musk had sued because he did not get his way.

Microsoft’s AI moat is wider than the headlines suggest. On April 27, Microsoft and OpenAI announced revised partnership terms that loosened the exclusivity that once defined the relationship. OpenAI can now offer its API across any cloud provider,

Given that, Microsoft and OpenAI announced an amended partnership that will still give them some of the benefits of the relationship but allow them work with other AI vendors and cloud providers. Essentially, they mutually agreed to remain friends, but now they can see others. There will be benefits to both.

The long-famed AGI clause, which has for years dictated the future of the Microsoft-OpenAI deal, is officially dead.