Oracle and OpenAI Cloud Deal Rumor Debunked

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In the swirl of fast‑moving tech headlines, it’s easy for speculation to slip into the news stream. A claim recently circulated suggesting Oracle had signed a record cloud deal with OpenAI. This would be a headline‑grabbing development—except there is no press release, SEC filing, or credible media report to confirm it.

 

 

OpenAI’s infrastructure partner continues to be Microsoft Azure, which has poured billions into its collaboration and remains the primary home for OpenAI’s models. For Oracle to suddenly claim that partnership would be nothing short of a tectonic shift, one that investors, analysts, and journalists would be covering incessantly. Their silence speaks volumes.

 

 

That doesn’t mean Oracle is standing still. The company has aggressively courted generative AI workloads, teaming up with NVIDIA to host massive GPU clusters in its cloud and collaborating with AI startup Cohere on enterprise solutions. Those partnerships are real, ongoing, and part of Oracle’s expanding footprint in the AI ecosystem.

 

 

The takeaway here is that the supposed Oracle–OpenAI deal should be treated as rumor rather than fact. Exciting though it sounds, there’s no verified evidence behind it. The real story is that Oracle is positioning itself as a key infrastructure player for the broader AI boom, while OpenAI continues to run squarely within Microsoft’s orbit.

 

Bénédicte Lin – Brussels, Paris, London, Beijing, Seoul, Bangkok, Tokyo, New York, Taipei, Hong Kong
Bénédicte Lin – Brussels, Paris, London, Beijing, Seoul, Bangkok, Tokyo, New York, Taipei, Hong Kong

 

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