OpenAI memo hints at shift from Microsoft to Amazon

OpenAI’s chief revenue officer Denise Dresser sent a four-page internal memo to employees on Sunday that, while diplomatically worded, made the company’s direction clear-Amazon is the growth engine now, and Microsoft has been holding them back. “Our Microsoft partnership has been foundational to our success. But it has also limited our ability to meet enterprises where they are-for many that’s Bedrock,” Dresser wrote in the memo, first reported by CNBC.

That’s about as close as a corporate memo gets to saying: we’ve outgrown you.

Amazon deal draws ‘staggering’ inbound demand from enterprise clients

Amazon announced plans to invest $50 billion in OpenAI as part of a strategic partnership in late February, with AWS serving as the exclusive third-party cloud distribution provider for OpenAI’s Frontier enterprise platform. Since then, Dresser says the response has been overwhelming….