Claim LD11-HQ-C10 (v1.0)
Under the April 2026 Microsoft–OpenAI terms, Microsoft remains OpenAI’s primary cloud partner, but OpenAI can serve products across clouds and Microsoft’s model/product IP licence through 2032 is non-exclusive.
Provenance and status
- Claim type
- FACT (as printed: “FACT”)
- Publication status
- ELIGIBLE (as printed: “ELIGIBLE”)
- Verification state
- CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY (as printed: “CONTENT VERIFIED”; verified by: UNKNOWN)
- Does not license
- Board control, acquisition, or that all committed spend is deployed
- Source (field 6, as printed)
- Microsoft/OpenAI joint announcements, 28 Oct 2025 and 27 Apr 2026
- Source type (field 7)
- VENDOR_PRIMARY (as printed: “Vendor primary”)
- Institutional position
- Vendors / counterparties
- Maturity (claim evidence / publication maturity)
- RAPIDLY_MATURING (as printed: “RAPIDLY MATURING”)
- Recorded date
- 2026-09-25
- Currentness / correction
- This is the current version. No correction or concern relation is recorded on its Sources.
Version
Pinned version v1.0 (entry LD11-HQ-C10--v1.0) — this page never floats to newer evidence.
This pinned version is also the current version.
Pinned Sources (field 6, version-specific)
- “Microsoft/OpenAI joint announcements, 28 Oct 2025 and 27 Apr 2026” → SRC-LD11-MICROSOFT-OPENAI-ANNOUNCEMENTS-2025-2026--v1.0 — Microsoft/OpenAI joint announcements, 28 Oct 2025 and 27 Apr 2026; class VENDOR_PRIMARY (explicit public provenance pin)
Read the originals
- SRC-LD11-MICROSOFT-OPENAI-ANNOUNCEMENTS-2025-2026: open one of the original documents
All 25 canonical Claim fields (raw values and normalized values)
| # | Canonical field | Canonical value (verbatim) | Normalized (Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CLAIM ID | LD11-HQ-C10 | — |
| 2 | PUBLIC-FACING CLAIM | Under the April 2026 Microsoft–OpenAI terms, Microsoft remains OpenAI’s primary cloud partner, but OpenAI can serve products across clouds and Microsoft’s model/product IP licence through 2032 is non-exclusive. | — |
| 3 | CLAIM TYPE | FACT | base_types: FACT |
| 4 | RESEARCH STRAND | D — Capital, partnerships and governance | — |
| 5 | MATURITY | RAPIDLY MATURING | states: RAPIDLY_MATURING |
| 6 | SOURCE | Microsoft/OpenAI joint announcements, 28 Oct 2025 and 27 Apr 2026 | source_ids: SRC-LD11-MICROSOFT-OPENAI-ANNOUNCEMENTS-2025-2026 |
| 7 | SOURCE TYPE | Vendor primary | classes: VENDOR_PRIMARY |
| 8 | INSTITUTIONAL POSITION | Vendors / counterparties | — |
| 9 | SCOPE | Bilateral Microsoft–OpenAI partnership; current terms as of Apr 2026 | — |
| 10 | DESIGN | Contract disclosure | — |
| 11 | SAMPLE / DATASET | Public deal terms | — |
| 12 | MODEL / TOOL / VERSION | n.a. | — |
| 13 | COMPARATOR | October 2025 prior terms | — |
| 14 | MAIN RESULT | April terms loosen exclusivity while preserving a major equity and cloud relationship | — |
| 15 | INFERENTIAL TARGET | Current dependency and contractual leverage | — |
| 16 | DOES NOT LICENSE | Board control, acquisition, or that all committed spend is deployed | — |
| 17 | VERIFICATION STATE | CONTENT VERIFIED | state: CONTENT_VERIFIED_PRIMARY · verified_by: UNKNOWN |
| 18 | LIMITATIONS | Private contract details remain undisclosed | — |
| 19 | CONTRADICTORY / SUPPORTING SOURCES | FTC historic partnership study provides earlier context | — |
| 20 | GEOGRAPHY / LANGUAGE | US / English | — |
| 21 | DISTRIBUTIONAL LEDGER | OpenAI gains multi-cloud option while Microsoft retains major economic exposure | — |
| 22 | R01 / FIELD-MAP LINKS | D1, LD-11 | — |
| 23 | WHAT WOULD CHANGE THIS CLAIM? | New amendment, filing or governance disclosure | — |
| 24 | PUBLICATION STATUS | ELIGIBLE | state: ELIGIBLE |
| 25 | RECORDED DATE | 2026-09-25 | — |
Field 22 references resolved against Field Map v0.2: D1 (DOMAIN); LD-11 (LIVING_DEBATE)
Cited by Living Debate versions
Research-of-record provenance
Materialized by sociolens-materializer 0.6.0 at 2026-09-28T20:00:00.000Z; normalization contract SocioLens — Claim Value Vocabulary v1.0.2 — Pre-Spike Materialization Contract (v1.0.2). Content seal SHA-256 95a856b26c7dd743017ef09ecca7872323f845b3277fb0cb749fba1cee0dac3d.
Frozen Drive-derived inputs
- R06 — LD-11 Canonical Claim Ledger v1.0 — LOCKED (v1.0) — Drive ID
1Ff_IzUBMpax35rKovu0vxXr1WTtpfCDP; revision: NOT_EXPOSED_BY_DRIVE_TEXT_EXPORT; Drive modified ; block “ENTRY 10 — LD11-HQ-C10 ” SHA-2562b6d8a12462756e44f531f992f46f51657322e912e261eda1c05ec4934180df3; SocioLens — Programme Status & Authority Register v0.6 status “CURRENT.”; frozen fixturefixtures/frozen/r06-ld11-claim-ledger-v1.0.
Builder decisions (not Drive data)
- VERSION = v1.0 — basis: Claim version taken from the canonical ledger artifact version (R06 — LD-11 Canonical Claim Ledger v1.0); Implementation Architecture Selection §5
- CURRENT_POINTER = true — basis: SocioLens — Programme Status & Authority Register v0.6 status for "R06 — LD-11 Canonical Claim Ledger v1.0 — LOCKED": "CURRENT."
- FIELD_6_SOURCE_REFERENCE = SRC-LD11-MICROSOFT-OPENAI-ANNOUNCEMENTS-2025-2026--v1.0 — basis: field 6 of ENTRY 10 — LD11-HQ-C10 cites "Microsoft/OpenAI joint announcements, 28 Oct 2025 and 27 Apr 2026"; the frozen field-6 segment of this ClaimVersion's ledger block; Drive-derived identity authority (Issue #41 Source inventory): HQ-Q5; Batch 02 §4; ledger C10 fields 6/7/8; KEY EVIDENCE; Central HQ ruling embedded in Issue #41, HQ-Q5.
- SOURCE_PROVENANCE_PIN = SRC-LD11-MICROSOFT-OPENAI-ANNOUNCEMENTS-2025-2026--v1.0 — basis: Issue #5 proof rendering (Architecture Proof Protocol v0.1 AP-08 / Amendment v1.2 §6): explicit version-pinned public provenance of this ClaimVersion — the pinned field-6 Source record "Microsoft/OpenAI joint announcements, 28 Oct 2025 and 27 Apr 2026"; Drive-derived identity authority (Issue #41 Source inventory): HQ-Q5; Batch 02 §4; ledger C10 fields 6/7/8; KEY EVIDENCE; Central HQ ruling embedded in Issue #41, HQ-Q5.