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Re:Microsoft will have to buy OpenAI in 2023 by krisoft on Monday January 09, 2023 @05:49AM (#34308962)
> I think OpenAI made two strategic blunders

to quote the "Introducing OpenAI" article from 2015, dec 11:

"OpenAI is a non-profit artificial intelligence research company. Our goal is to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return. Since our research is free from financial obligations, we can better focus on a positive human impact."

https://openai.com/blog/introducing-openai/

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Re:Microsoft will have to buy OpenAI in 2023 by adm_ on Monday January 09, 2023 @05:57AM (#34309006)
I believe OpenAI is for profit since 2019 now. See https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/11/openai-shifts-from-nonprof...
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Re:Microsoft will have to buy OpenAI in 2023 by krisoft on Monday January 09, 2023 @06:06AM (#34309074)
ok, so?

The mentioned things are strategic blunders if their goal is to maximise profit (maybe). If they have some other goal, they might not be blunders. In fact they might be on track with what they want to achieve.

The legal form of the corporate structure is not the deciding factor here. What are their goals is.

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Re:Microsoft will have to buy OpenAI in 2023 by Jensson on Monday January 09, 2023 @06:13AM (#34309106)
They are acting as if they want to be acquired. Publishing results and making a splash with your technology is a good way to get acquired.
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