Microsoft Spent Over $100 Billion on OpenAI Partnership Through June 2026
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Updated · Bloomberg · May 15
Microsoft Spent Over $100 Billion on OpenAI Partnership Through June 2026
12 articles · Updated · Bloomberg · May 15
More than $100 billion has gone into Microsoft’s OpenAI partnership cumulatively through the current fiscal year ending in June, executive Michael Wetter testified.
That total includes Microsoft’s original investments in OpenAI as well as the cost of building infrastructure and hosting the startup’s computing workloads.
The figure highlights how central Microsoft has been to OpenAI’s expansion, extending beyond equity backing to the underlying systems powering its AI services.
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