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OpenAI ends Microsoft legal peril over its $50B Amazon deal
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OpenAI ends Microsoft legal peril over its $50B Amazon deal

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Key Takeaways
  • Most importantly, the new terms solve an issue that was hanging over OpenAI's head since it signed its up-to-$50-billion deal with Amazon
  • With this new deal, instead of Microsoft having exclusive access to all of OpenAI's products and IP until the magical day when OpenAI produces AGI, its partnership has a definitive timeline
  • OpenAI products will ship "first on Azure, unless Microsoft cannot and chooses not to support the necessary capabilities," the companies say
  • But, critically, "OpenAI can now serve all its products to customers across any cloud provider
  • OpenAI also promised that AWS would have exclusive rights to serve up OpenAI's new agent-making tool, Frontier

OpenAI has won major concessions from its largest shareholder, Microsoft, that will allow it to sell products on AWS, while Microsoft gets more cash in a revenue-share agreement.

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