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Re:OpenAI and Microsoft reportedly planning $100B project fo... by namaria on Saturday March 30, 2024 @09:15AM (#39874559)
The bureaucracy is growing to support the needs of the growing bureaucracy. The goal of Microsoft is not AGI or AI or even software. Like any corporation, it's goal is to endure and grow. $100 billion capital integration is right on mission, as long as they can keep from ever writing it off. Deriving revenue from it would be a nice bonus.
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Re:OpenAI and Microsoft reportedly planning $100B project fo... by blackhawkC17 on Saturday March 30, 2024 @09:53AM (#39874899)
> $100 billion capital integration is right on mission, as long as they can keep from ever writing it off.

Can you explain what writing it off implies in this case?

Or they just write it off I guess..

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Re:OpenAI and Microsoft reportedly planning $100B project fo... by namaria on Saturday March 30, 2024 @09:57AM (#39874941)
I mean if it ever gets to a point where they have to reckon this amount as a loss.
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