Everyone has woken up to the massive Copyright Infringement As A Service that AI is....and they want to disavow any involvement
Simultaneously Regulators have found a new thing they can steal tax from and MSFT/AAPL are distancing themselves.
Simultaneously they both realize the 'secret sauce' in AI can no longer be kept that secret and its just a matter of time until open-source models can compete
Simultaneously they are busy replicating OpenAI internally without all the copyright infringement and will release it as a commercial service for domain specific customer use cases.
stealtax from and MSFT/AAPL are distancing themselves.