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Unchained

How Microsoft Won in Its Revised Deal With OpenAI

Unchained

Laura Shin

News, Business News, Tech News

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2026

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Microsoft restructured its agreement with OpenAI, and Ram Ahluwalia has a clear verdict: Microsoft won.  In this segment from Bits + Bips, Ram explains the three things Microsoft secured from the new deal, walks through the contract-breach context that shifted the negotiating leverage, and argues that Microsoft now holds a free call option on all of OpenAI's future model development, at no additional cost. Chris Perkins (@perkinscr97) — Co-Founder & Managing Partner, 250 Digital Asset Management Ram Ahluwalia (@ramahluwalia) — CEO, Lumida Wealth This clip is from a longer conversation on markets, tech earnings, DeFi security, and prediction markets. Full episode here: https://youtube.com/live/GE_847Xrj9E  We go live every Monday at 4:30pm ET — subscribe to catch it live. If you haven’t yet, be sure to subscribe to Bits + Bips, since the show will migrate there in a few weeks. Follow us on Apple Podcasts, YouTube, Spotify, X, Unchained and wherever you get your podcasts. 🔥 Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bits-bips/id1827931786 🔥 YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuKiSkbYrUOOEEiYQEVPniQ 🔥 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/6aSBMrOyi33aVDCULJ9mjN?si=NTLk-jl5QGeytA6-2kxMVQ&nd=1&dlsi=42f0b13dd53c4ba0 🔥X - https://x.com/bitsandbips 🔥 Unchained - https://unchainedcrypto.com/bitsandbips/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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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