Microsoft-OpenAI Partnership Redrawn as AI Race Shifts

OpenAI and Microsoft have restructured the terms of their landmark partnership, with OpenAI capping the revenue share payments it owes Microsoft and gaining new freedoms to deploy independently — a move the New York Times described as the two companies loosening their ties. Newly surfaced emails from a Musk v. Altman lawsuit also reveal that Microsoft executives were privately skeptical of OpenAI as far back as 2018, but feared pushing it toward Amazon. The restructured deal signals OpenAI is pivoting from model-builder to full-stack enterprise platform.