Microsoft watched OpenAI raise $110 billion and said ‘we’re still cool, right?’
OpenAI recently received a massive fundraising wave worth $110 billion. The funding round values OpenAI at 730 billion.
Amazon ($30 billion), NVIDIA ($30 billion), and SoftBank ($50 billion) are all part of the fundraising. OpenAI shared details of the fundraising:
- Microsoft’s IP relationship with OpenAI remains unchanged.
- Microsoft and OpenAI’s commercial relationship and revenue share remain unchanged.
- Microsoft and OpenAI’s funding sharing relationship remains intact.
- Azure remains the exclusive cloud provider of stateless OpenAI APIs.
- First-party OpenAI products will continue to be hosted on Azure.
- The contractual definition of AGI and the procedures for determining AI remain unchanged.
Microsoft and OpenAI have a complicated relationship. Last October, the companies reached an agreement that allows OpenAI and Microsoft to have more flexibility in certain areas.
Although there are still exclusivity agreements in place, Microsoft and OpenAI are free to grow independently in several areas.
Considering that OpenAI is still heavily dependent on Azure, scaling up and growing OpenAI could prove to be a huge advantage for Microsoft.
💬 What do you do about Microsoft sitting out the $110 billion OpenAI boost?
OpenAI recently received one of the largest funding rounds in the history of technology, pulling in $110 billion from Amazon, Nvidia, SoftBank, and others, while Microsoft chose not to participate.
Microsoft says the partnership remains intact and that this new round of funding doesn’t change anything about how the two companies work together. It’s a rare moment where one of the biggest players in AI takes a quick look while making sure everything is still on point.
This raises a real question for anyone following the AI space: Does Microsoft’s absence matter, or is this just a case of a long-term partner staying the course while everyone else runs? This article states the facts, but the definition is very open.
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