And if they walk across that street, I'll cancel my subscription on this side of the street, and start a subscription on that side of the street. Assuming everything else is about equal, such as subscription cost and technology competency. Seems like a simple maneuver, what's the hang up? The average person is just using ChatGPT in a browser window asking it questions. It seems like it would be fairly simple, if everything else is not about equal, for that person to just find a different LLM that is performing better at that time.

It's super easy to replace an OpenAI api endpoint with an Azure api endpoint. You totally correct here. I don't see why people are acting like this is a risk at all.

Not that easy, MS can sell the service of GPT but don't own it.

No OpenAI no GPT.

I was going on the assumption that MS would not have still been eager to hire them on if MS wasn't confident they could get their hands on exactly that.

That's not how contracts like this are written.

It's far more common that if I'm building on you, if you blow up, I automatically own the stuff.