Layer·Domains·Distribution
The channels that deliver models into real products and enterprise systems. Distribution paths often decide adoption speed and switching effort.
Azure OpenAI Service
Enterprise distribution lane for OpenAI models via Azure contracts, identity, and compliance pathways.
Platform
Azure OpenAI Service
Cold read
Azure OpenAI Service is Microsoft's managed access layer for OpenAI models, available through existing Azure contracts and compliance frameworks. It is a product of Microsoft's cloud division.
Position read
Microsoft's managed access point for OpenAI models, available through existing Azure contracts, identity controls, and compliance frameworks. The end of OpenAI's exclusivity arrangement doesn't change this service — Azure still carries the models, just without the exclusive deal.
Amazon Bedrock
Managed multi-model distribution surface in AWS. Shapes default model access for AWS-native teams.
Platform
Amazon Bedrock
Cold read
Amazon Bedrock is AWS's managed multi-model API service. It hosts models from Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, and others through a unified AWS interface and billing system.
Position read
Amazon's managed multi-model service, now hosting models from Anthropic, Meta, and OpenAI. For teams standardized on AWS, it is the lowest-friction path to production model access — no new vendor relationship, no separate billing.
Apple
Operates Apple Intelligence across iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. iOS 27 Extensions will let users install third-party LLMs from Google, Anthropic, and others into Siri, Writing Tools, and Image Playground — reversing the prior blocking posture.
PlatformApplication
Apple
Cold read
Apple develops iOS, iPadOS, and macOS and operates Apple Intelligence, its on-device AI platform. It is a publicly traded US company with over a billion active devices.
Position read
Competing on distribution and on-device runtime rather than building a frontier model in-house. iOS 27 Extensions makes Apple Intelligence a multiplexer for third-party LLMs at billion-device scale. Whether Apple attaches a commercial default-vendor term to the runtime slot is the open question.