Toast tastes amazing

Extinguish phase about to start.

"together with colleagues" is an invitation to quit and join MS

Or OpenAI is going to eventually get extinguished by Microsoft, once the employees who's shares are now worth 90% less than they did in the last week.

People were claming Facebook was dead a few months ago. We'll see.

If Ai had not magically appeared they would be dead - the most commonly posted articles on HN would be about how the 12th round of layoffs at big tech had reduced headcount to 30% of its peak.

Big tech employees are recieving paycheques on the back of the Ai mirage.

I don't think so, they have billions of users, it was doing to "die".

On the other hand, AI did come along, and the zuck had invested in a team of strong AI researchers, so he had a strategy and it paid off? Go figure?

Reality is they're still in the lead with the most widely used product. Sucks to lose a lot of their talent, but I wouldn't entirely count them out. Sure is great news for Anthropic and other competitors though.

Microsoft has a long tradition of stifling competition. They can't really do it out in the open anymore, so the acquihire method seems brilliant - certainly cheaper than litigation or fighting things out in the court of public opinion (lets be real, who actually cares outside of the niche tech/biz community).