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Re:OpenAI employees did not want to go work for Microsoft by VirusNewbie on Friday December 08, 2023 @02:06AM (#38566206)
Do you think Microsoft would have a competitive foundational model if not for OpenAI? Cause Google and Meta seem like they’re top of the pack there, with AWS at the very least releasing some.
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Re:OpenAI employees did not want to go work for Microsoft by vitorgrs on Monday December 11, 2023 @08:52PM (#38608262)
Microsoft already had competitive models, especially Megatron-Turing. They were even using on Bing Chat before... I'm pretty sure they still use their model on Bing Chat today (Balanced mode).

It was a competitive model for the time, it was made in 2021 if I recall in cooperation with Nvidia. The largest model at the time (and still remains one of the largest models ever made).

https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/using-deepspeed-and-megatr...

The thing here is that OpenAI managed to create GPT4 - that no one matched yet.

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Re:OpenAI employees did not want to go work for Microsoft by hughesjj on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @05:08PM (#38634869)
Yup, I took remember taydolf swiftler from way back when. Hey even if it didn't pan out, it still shows they'vd been trying and innovating for a while

Similar for Cortana.

Now, I don't like any of those products, but, still, effort is seen.

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