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Re:Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft by forgingahead on Monday November 20, 2023 @03:04AM (#38344300)
Did Microsoft just effectively acquire 100% of OpenAI without actually needing to cross the 49% regulatory hurdle? Depending on who follows them to MSFT, that might actually be the outcome here. And OpenAI is suddenly Xerox Parc.
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Re:Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft by Barrin92 on Monday November 20, 2023 @03:15AM (#38344474)
>Did Microsoft just effectively acquire 100% of OpenAI

No, Ilya alone is like 75% of the brains and I'm fairly certain he's not going anywhere.

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Re:Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft by ps256 on Monday November 20, 2023 @03:31AM (#38344711)
I don't know, way before all of this drama started, the rumors were that he was barely contributing any original or significant ideas to research and the grounbreaking ideas had come from lower level researchers.
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Re:Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft by throwaway69123 on Monday November 20, 2023 @03:25AM (#38344626)
Time will tell
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Re:Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft by gardenhedge on Monday November 20, 2023 @04:04AM (#38345138)
Except OpenAI didn't write the attention paper.. Google did. So Google is the Xerox
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