News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on OpenAI's Misalignment and Microsoft's Gain. Parent comment

Re:OpenAI's Misalignment and Microsoft's Gain by HarHarVeryFunny on Monday November 20, 2023 @08:29AM (#38347688)
It's doesn't seem like it is a big win for MSFT. Hard to argue that MSFT is now in a better position they they were before this happened.

Best case scenario for MSFT probably would have been to negotiate Altman et al back to OpenAI with some governance changes to boost stability. Keep the OpenAI GPT-N momentum going that they have harnessed for themselves.

MSFT have managed to neutralize (for now) the threat of Altman et al creating a competitor, but this has come at the cost of souring their relationship with OpenAI who they will continue to be dependent on for AI for next couple of years.

Big question here is what happens to OpenAI - can they keep the momentum going, and how do they deal with their sugar-daddy & compute provided MSFT now also being a competitor? How much of the team will leave, and can they recover from that ?

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:OpenAI's Misalignment and Microsoft's Gain by chucke1992 on Monday November 20, 2023 @08:53AM (#38348069)
The thing is Satya has played the best possible hand in the current situation. MSFT did not fall much and 1-2% deviation does not mean much on the long run.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:OpenAI's Misalignment and Microsoft's Gain by HarHarVeryFunny on Monday November 20, 2023 @09:06AM (#38348297)
Agreed - he contained the damage as best as could be done.
[ Parent | on HN ]