# The Most Consequential Week in AI Infrastructure History | Ep. 303

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Podcast: [The Six Five with Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-six-five-with-patrick-moorhead-and-daniel-newman-1180246)
Published: 2026-05-04T13:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

This week: four hyperscalers reported earnings on the same day, NVIDIA briefly crossed $5 trillion in market cap, OpenAI broke Azure exclusivity, and Google put $40 billion into Anthropic. Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman call it the most consequential week in AI infrastructure history and suggest the bull thesis just got its vote of confidence. The handpicked topics for this week are: OpenAI Breaks Azure Exclusivity — Both Patrick and Daniel were in the room for the original OpenAI-Microsoft announcement, and they both knew it wasn't the end of the story, it was just the beginning. The restructured deal keeps Microsoft on IP rights through 2032 and a guaranteed 20% revenue share through 2030, but the AGI trigger clause that would have ended payments is gone. The very next day OpenAI went live on AWS, the first non-Microsoft hyperscaler to carry it. Dan's read: model companies need more compute than any one hyperscaler can offer, and every hyperscaler needs access to all the models. Nobody wins with exclusivity anymore. (The Decode) Google Puts $40 Billion Into Anthropic — Pat spells it out: Anthropic just became AI's first joint custody child, with Amazon and Google as the parents and a $73 billion college fund. Google, which already had stakes in Anthropic and SpaceX, posted a $37 billion investment gain in a single quarter solely from valuation improvements, and now holds dual hyperscaler structural backing for Anthropic that Pat says OpenAI simply can't match. Daniel's thesis lands again: models are not the moat. Compute is the moat. Everybody is figuring that out now. (The Decode) The CPU War Is On: Meta Goes to AWS for Graviton — Meta recently secured a multi-year, multi-billion dollar Graviton agreement with AWS after being caught off-guard regarding both comp…

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