Privacy is non-negotiable for corporate. Even without considering costs or country of origin, we've seen from OpenAI that claims of AI safety are worth less than the (virtual) paper they're printed on.
All it takes is one incident, and all your company's internal data will start showing up in public users' chats. You can rely on a contract to prevent this, or you can guarantee it by using a locally hosted model you fully control.
When combined with the cost savings and good enough performance mentioned in the article, this can become a huge selling point.
Is this not true for everything then? All cloud services, all Internet providers, everything within M365, OneDrive and Databricks?
> Privacy is non-negotiable for corporate.
Corporate doesn't care at all about privacy. It's why the run outlook and windows and let Microsoft scoop up all of their company secrets. It's why they hand every scrap of data they have on their customers to salesforce and surrender their data to Atlassian and use Confluence and JIRA over countless alternatives.
All companies care about is that when data breaches happen publicly they can point the finger at someone else.