Microsoft was worried OpenAI would run off to Amazon and ‘shit-talk’ Azure
The Verge
Court documents reveal Microsoft executives feared OpenAI would abandon their partnership for Amazon and publicly criticize Azure.Summary
Court documents from the Musk v. Altman trial reveal that in 2017 and 2018, Microsoft executives were skeptical of the value of funding OpenAI. Internal emails show that while some leaders questioned the direct financial returns of the deal, Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott explicitly feared that refusing to provide the requested computing resources would cause OpenAI to “storm off to Amazon” and “shit-talk” Microsoft. Microsoft eventually proceeded with a $1 billion investment, though recent reports indicate that OpenAI has since expanded its cloud arrangements to include AWS.
(Source：The Verge)