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Re:Before Altman’s ouster, OpenAI’s board was divided and fe... by tuwtuwtuwtuw on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @12:56AM (#38375203)
Microsoft giving these credits to OpenAI doesn't mean some other customer won't buy the Azure credits they planned on buying. So I don't see how what you write makes sense.

At least assuming Microsoft hasn't run out of capacity in their data centers. I know Azure sometimes have capacity issues but those issues are intermittent and not say 5 year long (or whatever the windoe is when it comes to consuming these credit)

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Re:Before Altman’s ouster, OpenAI’s board was divided and fe... by crazygringo on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @09:06AM (#38379285)
> doesn't mean some other customer won't buy the Azure credits they planned on buying

Yes it does, because we're taking about GPU availability that is absolutely highly constrained across the economy.

If we were talking about CPU credits instead, then you're right that Microsoft would be paying/losing merely cost.

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