OpenAI customers consider turning to competing products such as Anthropic and Microsoft

Odaily News OpenAI board member and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever expressed regret on Monday that he participated in the firing of CEO Sam Altman, and questions about the future of OpenAI have intensified since then. Meanwhile, OpenAIs customers are looking for exits, suggesting there could be significant business losses that could devastate the startup. More than 100 OpenAI customers contacted OpenAI competitor Anthropic over the weekend, people familiar with the matter said. Others are reaching out to Google Cloud and OpenAI competitor Cohere. Many OpenAI customers are also considering moving to Microsofts Azure service, which provides copies of OpenAI models and other models, people familiar with the matter said. However, people familiar with the matter said that OpenAI investors still have hope that Altman will return to OpenAI. (The Information)