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OpenAI is a dead letter. Microsoft has basically bought out the company for $0. (www.theverge.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It looks like Microsoft's ambitions to completely cannibalize OpenAI is coming to pass. Apparently, Microsoft already has a perpetual license to all of OpenAI's IP (link), and owned all the physical hardware running the OpenAI GPTs. So now that they're about to acquire basically OpenAI's entire staff OpenAI literally has nothing.

I think the interesting angle is the anti-trust angle. The board's ouster of Altman has essentially allowed Microsoft to strip OpenAI for parts without having to compensate the other investors or receive anti-trust scrutiny. It is a massive win for MS.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think it would be very funny if the entire company collapsed because it’s run by idiots and backed by idiots who know nothing about AI. Then Microsoft sells it to some chinese company and everyone becomes angry

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I don't see why this would be a thing. Altman is just a VC guy, but literally everyone working on OpenAI products (GPT, DALL-E, etc...), is looking to jump ship and join the Microsoft venture. Like it or not, OpenAI/Microsoft are cutting edge when it comes to AI, although they achieved this mainly via brute force scaling.