When OpenAI announced last week the end of its drawn-out corporate restructuring, one of the freedoms the company had managed to negotiate for itself was the ability to more easily sign cloud contracts with Microsoft’s competitors. With the new agreement in place, the company waived its first right of refusal to be OpenAI’s compute provider. OpenAI is wasting no time taking advantage of that freedom. On Monday, Amazon announced a new multi-year, $38 billion cloud partnership with OpenAI. “Starting immedia ...

OpenAI has completed its for-profit recapitalization and converted its for-profit arm into the OpenAI Group Public Benefit Corporation, which remains controlled by the nonprofit foundation. Under the deal, Microsoft has gained a 27% stake and retained access to OpenAI’s technology through 2032, including any AGI models verified by an independent panel. The agreement lifts long-standing capital restrictions and ends Microsoft’s exclusive cloud rights. OpenAI and Microsoft jointly announced that they have ...

Guys, you know, we we uh in the last moments have gotten a couple of press releases from both OpenAI and Microsoft that are detailing the recapitalization that we've been keeping a close eye on of Open AAI. Remember, of course, one of the most important companies in the world, frankly, is Open AI, but it's a private company. It has been a notfor-profit and has been in the midst of a recapitalization to change that essentially and to become a public benefit corporation um as well as then having the open a uh ...