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OpenAI dissolves Microsoft binding, GPT-5.5 shows mixed results
OpenAI has lifted Azure exclusivity and now allows distribution on Google TPU, AWS Trainium and Bedrock with commitments through 2032. GPT-5.5 shows improvements but does not consistently dominate across all benchmarks (coding, documents, mathematics, vision), and GitHub Copilot shifts to usage-based billing from June.
WHY IT MATTERS
Unwinding the Microsoft agreement signals that OpenAI wants market distribution across infrastructure providers. The mixed results for GPT-5.5 indicate that frontier models still face specialization challenges, while Copilot's billing change reflects economic pressures in the AI tools segment.
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