Sam Altman just stabbed Microsoft in the back.
Microsoft owns about 25% of OpenAi and is the largest investor. The deal was, "we fund you, you use our Azure datacenters".
OpenAi just signed a $50 billion deal with Amazon Web Services.
Microsoft executives argue that a recent deal making Amazon Web Services (AWS) the "exclusive third-party cloud provider" violates the spirit, and potentially the letter, of Microsoft's exclusive partnership with ChatGPT. Under existing terms, Microsoft maintains that all access to OpenAI’s advanced models through APIs must be routed through its own Azure cloud platform.
While Microsoft has invested $13 billion in OpenAI since 2019, OpenAi was so desperate for money that they recently secured a $50 billion investment commitment from Amazon—comprising an initial $15 billion and a further $35 billion contingent on performance milestones through 2028.
So OpenAi is trying to have it both ways, getting money from Microsoft AND Amazon, claiming they are both exclusive cloud service providers.