Mostly capacity issues with openai made super early stuff infeasible for our customer base, and really it was because they would only give an extremely small number of total resources per azure account, which of course each would be vetted.

I pushed for local first models but the cost tradeoff just did not make sense for anything but the biggest clients, and they were constantly swapping back and forth whether openai would be acceptable or not for "insert sensitive use case here"

Mostly just a big cluster