The head of Amazon’s cloud division has used recent turmoil at OpenAI to launch a thinly veiled attack on Microsoft, the artificial intelligence company’s biggest investor.
Adam Selipsky’s swipe at his biggest rival in cloud computing came as Amazon Web Services announced new custom chips for servers and AI — two weeks after Microsoft debuted its own bespoke processors — as well as a new workplace AI assistant that competes with Microsoft’s OpenAI-powered Copilot.
Satya Nadella, chief executive of Microsoft, which has an exclusive partnership with OpenAI, rushed to support the AI company’s co-founder Sam Altman when he was abruptly ousted as chief executive earlier this month.