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An updated deal between OpenAI and Microsoft will see the ChatGPT owner able to serve all of its products via cloud providers other than Microsoft.
The partnership between Microsoft and OpenAI is a big part of the reason the company was able to quickly expand ChatGPT and other services over the past few years. A new “amended agreement,” though, will sever some of the exclusivity that Microsoft has seen in terms of hosting OpenAI services.
The two companies summarize the changes in the following points:
The biggest change here is that OpenAI can now serve “all its products” through “any cloud provider,” as some products, such as the GPT API, were exclusively available via Azure. In theory, this could bring down prices for customers as Creative Strategies analyst (and occasional 9to5Google contributor) Max Weinbach brings out.
Google’s cloud services are likely to benefit here, as OpenAI already leverages Google Cloud for ChatGPT.
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