Microsoft Has Recouped More Than Double Its $13 Billion OpenAI Investment in Revenue

For three years, Microsoft was the only cloud provider to sell OpenAI’s large language models to other businesses, an exclusive right it fought hard to preserve after investing $13B in the startup. But businesses bought access to those models from OpenAI directly than from Microsoft over that time, new data show. Even so, Microsoft’s OpenAI bet has paid off handsomely in other ways.