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President Donald Trump gathered the leaders of the “Stargate” effort at the White House on Tuesday to announce the deal, stating that it was intended to help keep the United States ahead of China and other rivals in the global AI race, utilizing chips from Nvidia (NVDA).
Since 2019, Microsoft has had arrangements with OpenAI that gave the Redmond, Washington-based company the exclusive right to build new computing infrastructure for OpenAI. Microsoft, in a blog post, said it has “approved OpenAI’s ability to build additional capacity, primarily for research and training of models.”
“The key elements of our partnership remain in place for the duration of our contract through 2030, with our access to OpenAI’s IP, our revenue sharing arrangements and our exclusivity on OpenAI’s APIs all continuing forward,” Microsoft said.
Microsoft also said “OpenAI recently made a new, large Azure commitment that will continue to support all OpenAI products as well as training,” referring to Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing service.
