• echo64@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    well you have about 4-6 years to find another job then, like it or not, OpenAI is going to be owned by Microsoft

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      11 months ago

      Totally agree. Microsoft has invested way too much in openAI to have a repeat of the Sam Altman debacle. They will formalize their control of te company. And Altman has already shown that in conflict between the board and MS, he’s on Microsoft’s side.

      Also, any openAI developer who thinks that openAI currently is an independent company is kidding themselves. Microsoft is effectively already calling the shots, al be it in a roundabout way.

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        11 months ago

        Altman has already shown that in conflict between the board and MS, he’s on Microsoft’s Sam Altman’s side.

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      11 months ago

      I dunno, I think they like the plausible deniability and monopoly regulation shielding that comes from investing in but not owning OpenAI. I think they’ll absolutely find ways to exert more and more control, and once there are reasonable competitors they might snap it up, but for the time being they probably find the distance beneficial.