Since 2019, Microsoft and OpenAI have labored collectively to advance synthetic intelligence responsibly and make its advantages broadly accessible. What started as a analysis partnership has grown into one of the crucial consequential collaborations in know-how — grounded in mutual belief, deep technical integration, and a protracted‑time period dedication to innovation.
As conversations round AI investments and partnerships develop and as OAI pronounces new funding and new companions as they did at present, we need to guarantee these bulletins are understood inside the present assemble of our partnership. Nothing about at present’s bulletins in any method adjustments the phrases of the Microsoft and OpenAI relationship which have been beforehand shared in our joint weblog in October 2025.
The partnership stays robust and central. Microsoft and OpenAI proceed to work intently throughout analysis, engineering, and product improvement, constructing on years of deep collaboration and shared success.
Our IP relationship continues unchanged. Microsoft maintains its unique license and entry to mental property throughout OpenAI fashions and merchandise. Collaborations just like the partnership between OpenAI and Amazon have been all the time contemplated beneath our agreements and Microsoft is excited to see what they construct collectively.
Our business and income share relationship stays unchanged. The continuing income share association stays unchanged and has all the time included sharing income from partnerships between OpenAI and different cloud suppliers.
Azure stays the unique cloud supplier of stateless OpenAI APIs. Microsoft is the unique cloud supplier for stateless APIs that present entry to OpenAI’s fashions and IP. These APIs may be bought from Microsoft or immediately from OpenAI. Prospects and builders profit from Azure’s international infrastructure, safety, and enterprise-grade capabilities at scale. Any stateless API calls to OpenAI fashions that consequence from a collaboration between OpenAI and any third social gathering – together with Amazon – could be hosted on Azure.
OpenAI’s first social gathering merchandise, together with Frontier, will proceed to be hosted on Azure.
AGI definition and processes are unchanged. The contractual definition of AGI and the method for figuring out if it has been achieved stays the identical.
The partnership helps OpenAI’s progress. As OpenAI scales, it continues to have flexibility to commit to further compute elsewhere, together with via large-scale infrastructure initiatives akin to the Stargate venture.
The partnership was designed to offer Microsoft and OpenAI room to pursue new alternatives independently, whereas persevering with to collaborate, which every firm is doing, collectively and independently.
We stay dedicated to our partnership and to the shared mission that introduced us collectively. We proceed to work aspect‑by‑aspect to ship highly effective AI instruments, advance accountable improvement, and be certain that AI advantages individuals and organizations all over the place.
