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Why is that ridiculous? Cloud services gives companies "coupons" and free usage for X hours for a bunch of other companies, why wouldn't they do that for a comp
by capableweb 3y ago
Why is that ridiculous? Cloud services gives companies "coupons" and free usage for X hours for a bunch of other companies, why wouldn't they do that for a company they invested heavily in?
- rickdeckard 3y agoBecause that's not how it works. Even company cars of General Motors employees have to be purchased from General Motors. Such "free usage" coupons are marketing activities to gain new customers, Microsoft already completed the "dating phase" with OpenAI. They surely don't pay list-price for Azure but it's surely also not free. Moreover, as per Microsoft themselves, the 1bn USD investment into OpenAI carried the condition that Azure becomes the exclusive provider for cloud-services: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/01/23/microsoftandopenaiextendpartnership/ https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/01/23/microsoftandopen... It's not exclusive because it's free, it's exclusive because "we paid you 1bn USD to buy it from us"
- mattpallissard 3y agoI've personally worked on a project where Microsoft ate the cloud cost in order partner with us. They might not give unfettered credits, it could be for specific projects. That said, I wouldn't be surprised if it was unfettered either.