: OpenAI rivals Google, Amazon make bids to take advantage of corporate soap opera

Alphabet Inc.’s GOOGLGOOG Google and Salesforce.com Inc. CRM are stepping up efforts to win business customers during OpenAI’s calamitous corporate coup over the past several days. While OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman bounced between the company and primary investor Microsoft Corp. MSFT, Google’s sales team launched a campaign to persuade customers to switch from OpenAI through matching pricing and cloud credits. Amazon.com Inc. AMZN, meanwhile, said customers can choose between many AI systems versus going all-in on OpenAI or a single vendor.

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