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Re:Microsoft introduces its own chips for AI, with eye on cost by echelon on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @02:17PM (#38281060)
> Unless Microsoft is planning to acquire OpenAI fully

They're going to play a modified version of the old Rareware trick.

It's also a pretty great game to buy up OpenAI equity, which ultimately gets spent on Microsoft compute. Two birds, one stone.

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Re:Microsoft introduces its own chips for AI, with eye on cost by WanderPanda on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @02:53PM (#38281503)
I don’t think the margins here are so considerable that we can assume revenue = profit
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Re:Microsoft introduces its own chips for AI, with eye on cost by echelon on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @03:07PM (#38281718)
They can be losing money, but gaining in market share and moat.

Almost nobody in this game cares about profit right now.

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Re:Microsoft introduces its own chips for AI, with eye on cost by kmeisthax on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @05:12PM (#38283316)
...they're going to overbid on a studio that was actively falling apart, after being rebuffed from buying one of the biggest giants in the business[0], all as part of an ill-advised attempt to muscle into a game business they didn't understand?

[0] Microsoft tried to buy Nintendo very early on

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