Microsoft says it has a new deal with OpenAI that gives Microsoft “right of first refusal”, meaning it’s no longer OpenAI’s exclusive cloud provider (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Microsoft says it has a new deal with OpenAI that gives Microsoft “right of first refusal”, meaning it’s no longer OpenAI’s exclusive cloud provider  —  Microsoft was once the exclusive provider of data center infrastructure for OpenAI to train and run its AI models.  No longer.