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"Microsoft-OpenAI" refers not to a single company but to a strategic partnership between two separate companies, Microsoft and OpenAI. Microsoft provides cloud computing infrastructure to OpenAI, and OpenAI's AI models are integrated into Microsoft products.

We dig behind Microsoft-OpenAI's stated narrative to unravel the real strategy — the calls that actually shaped it, and why they played out the way they did.

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Microsoft Spent $13 Billion to Become OpenAI's Best-Funded Captive Customer
Everyone calls it an alliance. The filings tell a colder story: Microsoft's commitment bought it compute dependency and no board seat, and by October 2025 its stake had been written down from 32.5% to roughly 27% — leverage steadily converting into a guaranteed bill.
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