Why does OpenAI depend so heavily on Microsoft?
Leaked figures reportedly show OpenAI paid Microsoft around $17.2 billion for compute and operational infrastructure in a single period. Because OpenAI doesn't own its own large-scale data centers, its entire product — from ChatGPT to the API — runs on a single vendor's hardware and goodwill.
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