OpenAI's Sam Altman hinted at a potential new direction for the company, suggesting that the AI startup might start offering compute capacity directly to other businesses and individuals.Taking On Tech GiantsIf OpenAI goes through with it, this move could position it as a competitor to established cloud service providers like Microsoft Corp.'s (NASDAQ:MSFT) Azure, Amazon.com Inc.'s (NASDAQ:AMZN) AWS, and Alphabet Inc.-owned (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google's Cloud Platform."We are also looking at ways to ...