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Re:OpenAI Uses Complex and Circular Deals to Fuel Its Multib... by _aavaa_ on Friday October 31, 2025 @02:01PM (#45774844)
Windows mobile by the time it looked like the iPhone was late to the party. But windows had been releasing a mobile os for a long time before that. Microsoft was first, they just didn’t make as good of a product as Apple despite their money.

OpenAI is also first, but it is absolutely not a given that they are the Apple in this situation. Microsoft too had money to bury the competition, they even staged a fake funeral when they shipped windows phone 7.

> Barring something very unexpected

Like the release of an iPhone?

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Re:OpenAI Uses Complex and Circular Deals to Fuel Its Multib... by treis on Friday October 31, 2025 @03:47PM (#45775959)
Yep. It would have to be something that dramatic to render all the technology and infrastructure OpenAI has obsolete. But if it's anything like massive data training on a huge number of GPUs then OpenAI is one of the winners.
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