"suspicious is understandable from the users side when so much commercial money is involved." OpenAI is a commercial entity. They restructured from a non-profi

"suspicious is understandable from the users side when so much commercial money is involved." OpenAI is a commercial entity. They restructured from a non-profit. This is a completely commercial deal to help Azure catch up with Google and Amazon in AI. OpenAI will adopt and make Azure their preferred platform. And Microsoft and Azure will jointly "develop new Azure AI supercomputing technologies", which I assume is advancing their FGPA-based deep learning offering. Google has a lead with TensorFlow + TPUs and this is a move to "buy their way in", which is a very Microsoft thing to do.