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Re:Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft by olalonde on Monday November 20, 2023 @06:20AM (#38346404)
> There's a thin possibility that Microsoft would have to write-off its whole $10B (or more?) investment in OpenAI

How so? I don't get the hype.

OpenAI had such ground breaking models that they would have been successful with just about any management in place. Everything outside the models was really just a side show. Their marketing efforts were, at best, average. They called their flagship product "ChatGPT", a term that might resonate with AI scientists but appears as a random string of letters to the average person. They had no mobile app for a long time. Their web app had some pretty major bugs.

Maybe Sam Altman deserves credit for attracting talent and capital, I don't know. But it seems to me that OpenAI's success by far and large hinges on their game-changing models.

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Re:Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft by infecto on Monday November 20, 2023 @06:36AM (#38346569)
I have the complete opposite perspective. Their initial api went live sometime late 2020. They have done a fantastic job scaling, releasing features while growing the business at a rate we have not seen many times before.
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