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Re:Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft by lajawfe on Monday November 20, 2023 @03:17AM (#38344507)
Microsoft is the winner here. They will probably use Sam/Greg's technical know how to reproduce GPT4 internally, and also direct future research based on current OpenAI approaches which they are certainly aware of. This also shields Microsoft from being dependent on an external entity that they cannot control.

Also makes me think, as easy as they joined Microsoft, was Sam already in talks with Satya for MS to acquire OpenAI? That could have been the start of this all... Anyways, Satya played very smart with the hands he was dealt, got what he needed.

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Re:Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft by blackoil on Monday November 20, 2023 @03:20AM (#38344559)
Not just Sam and Greg. From all rumors, they'll get a cream of researchers from OpenAI, plus access to most of already developed tech. Not sure about training data etc. that they may have to recreate. And from my understanding, in LLM tech know how is more valuable than actual data. If you know what to get, few 100 million should get them that.
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