Microsoft has invested $13 billion into OpenAI since 2019.... with its stake of 32.5% in the for profit business worth a whopping $135 billion!
Microsoft's position in general with OpenAI has been changing and will continue to with the new agreement that they have reached.
Microsoft said OpenAI has agreed to purchase an incremental $250 billion of Azure services, though Microsoft will no longer have a first right of refusal to be OpenAI’s compute provider. OpenAI remains Microsoft’s frontier model partner. Microsoft said its IP rights for both models and products are extended through 2032, and include models post-AGI. OpenAI’s consumer hardware is excluded from Microsoft’s IP rights.
I wonder what we will see when Microsoft next reports there numbers Wednesday given these concrete details with so much!