OpenAI announces availability across cloud providers

The artificial intelligence developer updated its terms and conditions with Microsoft, announcing that its suite of agentic capabilities would now be available via other cloud providers.

OpenAI and Microsoft are changing the terms of their partnership, ending exclusivity between OpenAI’s artificial intelligence models and Microsoft’s cloud offerings — as the AI developer announced new product availability through Amazon Web Services and other cloud providers.

In back to back announcements on Monday and Tuesday, OpenAI said its software will be eligible to operate on any cloud service provider, not just Microsoft. The Tuesday announcement confirmed OpenAI’s expanded partnership with AWS, with its models, Codex agentic software and agentic support for Amazon Bedrock all available to AWS customers. 

Microsoft will still be OpenAI’s primary cloud partner, however, and OpenAI products will be first available on Azure platforms unless Microsoft cannot “support the necessary capabilities,” per the press release. Microsoft ...