Microsoft extends OpenAI partnership (third investment)
Microsoft announced a multiyear, multibillion-dollar investment in OpenAI, its third after 2019 and 2021. Azure became OpenAI's exclusive cloud provider for research, products and API services.
- Value
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- Capacity
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- Term
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- Accelerators
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What the value means
Microsoft described it only as a "multiyear, multibillion dollar investment". Amount not disclosed by the companies.
The record
Verified 9 Nov 2026- Announced
- Buyer
- OpenAI
- Seller / provider
- Microsoft
- ValueHeadline dollar value exactly as stated in the cited source.
- Not disclosed
- Capacity
- Not disclosed
- Accelerators
- Not disclosed
- Chips
- Not named
- Term
- Not disclosed
- StatusAdds to an existing relationship
- expanded
- Other parties
- None named
- Deal type
- equity-for-compute, cloud-capacity
Sources
1- Microsoft and OpenAI extend partnership (Microsoft blog) read 2026-11-09
Cite this deal
AI Compute Deals, “Microsoft extends OpenAI partnership (third investment)”, https://aicomputedeals.com/microsoft-openai-investment-2023-01/ (verified 2026-11-09).
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The rest of this relationship
2 rows- OpenAI–Microsoft recapitalization: $250B incremental Azure commitment $250B signed
- Microsoft extends OpenAI partnership (third investment) n/d expanded