Microsoft Corp. and OpenAI have agreed to drop the software giant’s exclusive right to sell the startup’s AI models, opening the door for the ChatGPT maker to pursue deals with cloud-computing rivals like Amazon.

Microsoft said Monday it will no longer pay a share of its revenue to ChatGPT maker OpenAI, the latest move to untether a close partnership that helped unleash an artificial intelligence boom. OpenAI relied exclusively on Microsoft’s investments in cloud computing services to build the technology that helped make ChatGPT a household name.

Both of these tech titans are riding the artificial intelligence wave, but one of them seems like a better long-term investment than the other.

Shares of Microsoft ( MSFT +2.11%) have rallied recently, rising about 14% over the last 30 days as of this writing. The move comes ahead of the software and cloud giant's fiscal third-quarter earnings report, which is scheduled for after the market closes on Wednesday, April 29.

As artificial intelligence reshapes the global economy, the battle among cloud computing giants Microsoft, Amazon and Alphabet's Google Cloud is intensifying, with investors scrambling to pick the best stock for 2026 gains amid surging demand for data centers,

Today, I am pleased to announce that Azure Local now scales to support deployments of up to thousands of servers within a single sovereign environment, allowing organizations to run much larger workloads locally across large-footprint datacenters,

Microsoft will invest $18 billion in Australia to expand AI and cloud infrastructure, deepening Azure, Copilot, and cybersecurity partnerships with the government.

Microsoft Corp. must face a UK class action trial over allegations it abused its dominant position in the market to overcharge businesses that used the Windows Server operating system and Azure, an antitrust tribunal has ruled.

LONDON (AFP) — Microsoft is facing a 1.7 billion-pound ($2.3 billion) class action in Britain accusing the U.S. technology giant of abusing its dominant market position to overcharge businesses, claimants said Thursday.

Microsoft and OpenAI announced a major amendment to their partnership Monday, making Microsoft's IP license non-exclusive and opening all OpenAI products to any cloud provider.