微軟曾擔心OpenAI投奔亞馬遜並抹黑Azure
2018年的郵件顯示，微軟投資OpenAI的10億美元部分是為了阻止該初創公司投奔亞馬遜並詆毀Azure。
Court documents from the Elon Musk v. Sam Altman trial expose Microsoft's internal logic before its $1 billion OpenAI investment. Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott told CEO Satya Nadella in 2018 that refusing OpenAI's request for compute funding risked the startup "storming off to Amazon" and "shit-talk[ing]" Azure. While executives questioned the ROI of covering OpenAI's compute costs, Microsoft ultimately moved forward with the deal to prevent competitors from gaining OpenAI's influence and credibility in the AI community.