MicrosoftNicolasKheirallah I agree a small amount with what you say. Sure, it needs data center compute, but so does OpenAI. They are not limiting to 300+ license purchases, and guess who they use for compute? Microsoft. So your logic leads to Microsoft wants to favor OpenAI... I disagree. Where the size comes in for Microsoft is customer support. They don't want to be flooded with tickets and calls when things don't work. OpenAI does not run a help desk. The core issue is licensing and communication, not the meaning of the words General Availability. They never even hinted this was coming and they are avoiding public comment on it, with some small communications saying coming someday to SMB. So let's stick on the communication and licensing -- its a debacle.
We have not heard from any large companies who have bought 300 licenses and are using it. I suspect it is not ready for prime time and they have all of those customers locked down with NDA under the enterprise agreements.
This was a marketing ploy to show they are moving forward but no one is actually talking about the product and how it works, to me that is telling.
