If this is true this presents a huge opportunity for google. History has shown that this closed/protectionist business model that Microsoft started a few years back and only seems to be getting worse eventually leads to them being left behind.

ChatGPT is not something they developed and the more it strays from Open-AI the more good people they lose. Having also a CEO who has only ever know Microsoft will eventually catch them out. Not saying they are not successful now just that the closed minded arrogance are warning signs to come.

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Give them all a gun and see what happens. Not that .. that figure is in anyway accurate.

Cloud spend was always attractive for c-suit to outsource accountability and resourcing. However many did not truly understand it should be where it makes sense not “cloud first approach” or just everything to cloud. That is just lazy not only now they have high costs but they also probably decommissioned perfectly good on prem infra and lost a lot of talent.