Microsoft and OpenAI’s famed AGI agreement is dead
Apr 27, 2026
OpenAI and Microsoft's partnership-turned-situationship just got even less committed. And a clause about artificial general intelligence, which has for years dictated the future of their deal, has officially been dropped.
On Monday morning, Microsoft announced a handful of big changes to it
s long-standing OpenAI deal. Microsoft will remain OpenAI's "primary cloud partner, and OpenAI products will ship first on Azure, unless Microsoft cannot and chooses not to support the necessary capabilities." But OpenAI can "now serve all its products to customers across any cloud provider." That lets OpenAI pursue its goals of courting enterprise custom …
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