OpenAI touts Amazon alliance in memo, says Microsoft has 'limited our ability' to reach clients

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OpenAI’s newly appointed revenue chief, Denise Dresser, sent a memo to staffers on Sunday, touting the company’s alliance with Amazon

as a key growth driver for its enterprise business, while noting the constraints of its longstanding tie-up with Microsoft

Dresser’s memo lands less than two months after Amazon announced plans to invest up to $50 billion in OpenAI as part of a strategic partnership. Microsoft, Amazon’s top cloud computing rival, has invested more than $13 billion in OpenAI since 2019, backing the company long before it kicked off the generative AI boom with the launch of ChatGPT.

Amazon Web Services, the leader in cloud infrastructure, gives companies access to all of the major AI models, including those from OpenAI, through a platform called Bedrock.