OpenAI products for third parties will be exclusively on Azure: Satya Nadella

Restructuring artificial intelligence major OpenAI into a for-profit entity allows it to develop certain products with third parties, apart from its longstanding largest backer, Microsoft. But these products can be accessed exclusively through Microsoft’s cloud platform Azure, clarified the tech giant’s chief executive Satya Nadella.

Even in (the case of) a custom agreement, where OpenAI partners with another cloud infrastructure provider to develop an AI model and deploy it on a platform, the partner needs to come to Azure, Nadella said on the…