How Microsoft Won in Its Revised Deal With OpenAI
Unchained
Laura Shin
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🗓️ 29 April 2026
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I want to unpack a little bit what's going on with Open AI. |
| 0:02.6 | This news just recently broke. |
| 0:04.1 | So Microsoft is going to remain OpenAI's primary cloud partner. |
| 0:09.3 | And Open. |
| 0:09.7 | I was going to ship products will ship first on Azure. |
| 0:14.1 | Microsoft is going to continue to have a license to OpenAI IP for models and products through 2032. |
| 0:20.3 | But Microsoft's license is no longer going to be non-exclusive. |
| 0:25.2 | Microsoft will no longer pay a revenue share to OpenAI, |
| 0:28.4 | and the revenue share payments from OpenAI to Microsoft will continue to 2030, |
| 0:33.5 | independent of OpenIIs a technical progress. |
| 0:36.7 | So this seems like, you know, what's your take on all this? |
| 0:41.1 | Is this friendly, like, hey, we're both, like, we agree to disagree. We're, you know, how do you think about it? |
| 0:48.8 | I'm just a coupleing or whatever you call it. Yeah. Yeah, this is, let's do winners and losers on this. |
| 0:53.2 | Like, overall, Microsoft's a winner here. |
| 0:56.0 | You know, as you know, when a startup cuts a deal with the big corporate, the corporates |
| 1:00.0 | bring their M&A and CorpDeft team and they ink a paper-tight contract that protects |
| 1:06.0 | them many ways to Sunday. |
| 1:08.0 | And Microsoft was the purse funding Open AI for such a long time, |
| 1:13.6 | and they had wins because the Microsoft Cloud would benefit from all of the Open AI's development. |
| 1:20.6 | Now here's a couple things. So one is Microsoft doesn't have to spend money and do a rest for |
| 1:25.6 | open AI. So their expenses linked to Open AIA are going to drop. |
| 1:30.7 | Number two, they're going to enjoy revenue from Open AIA through 2030. |
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