Microsoft → OpenAI: $13B investment
Microsoft invests about $13 billion in OpenAI. Microsoft's cumulative investments in OpenAI from 2019 to 2023 (including the multibillion-dollar tranche of January 2023), largely in the form of Azure credits.
This deal is 7% of everything Microsoft pays and 7% of everything OpenAI receives in this database.
- Date
- Jan 23, 2023
- Paid by
Microsoft- Received by
OpenAI- Type
- Investment
- Amount
- $13B
- Status
- closed
- Note
- cumulative 2019-2023
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All deals between Microsoft and OpenAI
- Jan 23, 2023 Microsoft → OpenAI · Microsoft invests about $13 billion in OpenAI $13B
- Oct 28, 2025 OpenAI → Microsoft · OpenAI commits to buy $250 billion of Azure $250B
- Oct 28, 2025 Microsoft → OpenAI · Recapitalization: Microsoft at 27% of OpenAI Group PBC n/a
- Mar 24, 2026 Microsoft → OpenAI · Microsoft joins $122 billion round n/a
- Apr 27, 2026 OpenAI → Microsoft · Microsoft-OpenAI: amended deal ends exclusivity n/a
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- Aug 17, 2026 OpenAI leases 8 GW Ohio campus for 20 years n/a
- Jul 22, 2026 Project Camellia: $20 billion campus in Georgia n/a
- Jun 15, 2026 Microsoft pulls out of Nscale Loughton data center $3B
- Jun 5, 2026 OpenAI proposes 5% stake to US government n/a
- May 11, 2026 TPG leads $4 billion into OpenAI's DeployCo $4B
- Apr 23, 2026 Microsoft's A$25B Australia pledge $18B
- Apr 14, 2026 Microsoft takes over Stargate Norway capacity n/a
- Apr 3, 2026 Microsoft to invest $10bn in Japan $10B
- Mar 24, 2026 Microsoft may prepay Samsung $10bn+ for memory $10B