{"id":1005474,"date":"2026-04-28T11:09:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T05:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1005474"},"modified":"2026-04-28T11:09:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T05:39:06","slug":"openai-and-microsoft-rewrite-their-13-billion-deal-heres-what-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/28\/openai-and-microsoft-rewrite-their-13-billion-deal-heres-what-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI and Microsoft rewrite their $13 billion deal: Here&#8217;s what changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For years, OpenAI&#8217;s biggest financial backer was also its biggest constraint. That changed Monday. OpenAI and Microsoft announced a revised partnership that ends Microsoft&#8217;s exclusive license to OpenAI&#8217;s technology\u2014the same technology Microsoft had been backing since 2019, to the tune of $13 billion. The new deal allows OpenAI to sell its products freely across rival cloud platforms, including Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud. It&#8217;s as much an admission as it is an agreement: the old arrangement wasn&#8217;t working for OpenAI anymore.<\/p>\n<p>The tension had surfaced publicly earlier this month, when OpenAI revenue chief Denise Dresser sent an internal memo telling staff that the Microsoft partnership &#8220;has limited our ability to meet enterprises where they are\u2014for many, that&#8217;s Bedrock.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years, OpenAI&#8217;s biggest financial backer was also its biggest constraint. That changed Monday. OpenAI and Microsoft announced a revised partnership that ends Microsoft&#8217;s exclusive license to OpenAI&#8217;s technology\u2014the same technology Microsoft had been backing since 2019, to the tune of $13 billion. The new deal allows OpenAI to sell its products freely across rival cloud platforms, including Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud. It&#8217;s as much an admission as it is an agreement: the old arrangement wasn&#8217;t working for OpenAI anymore. The tension had surfaced publicly earlier this month, when OpenAI revenue chief Denise Dresser sent an internal memo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005476,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005474\/revisions\/1005476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}