OpenAI buys from Azure because of the Microsoft investment deal.

OpenAI sells and reaches enterprise customers via GCP.

Enterprises want zero data retention guarantees and they're already on AWS or GCP, so this is how OpenAI reaches those customers and makes more money.

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_boffin_ 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Microsoft has had ZDR for inference since pretty much the beginning. Just needed to fill out a form and get approved.

	▲	_diyar 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		However, consider this: > Enterprises with Google Cloud spend commitments will be able to draw down their GCP commitments for these purchases.

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keerthiko 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

isn't the largest portion of openAI's reach to (overwhelming cloud provider leader AWS) enterprise customers via amazon bedrock?

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paxy 5 hours ago | parent [-]

OpenAI only launched on bedrock ~3 months ago, so I doubt it. It has been running on azure since day 1.

	▲	booi an hour ago \| parent [-]
		so.. yeah i guess bedrock is their largest distribution system.