<story><title>OpenAI&apos;s chaos does not add up</title><url>https://builtnotfound.proseful.com/openais-chaos-does-not-add-up</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skilled</author><text>I have a strange feeling that all of this is about selling OpenAI to Microsoft. I mean is it that unlikely? Everything is pointing in that direction, and maybe there was a loophole that allowed this to happen in a way that doesn&amp;#x27;t make it seem like Microsoft were the ones doing the push.&lt;p&gt;We have to be honest with ourselves and realize that these are billion&amp;#x2F;trillion dollar companies we&amp;#x27;re talking about here, with some of the &amp;quot;smartest&amp;quot; people at the helm. I totally see how an acquisition could be swiped through the means of saying that these people were inexperienced.&lt;p&gt;Disclaimer: I&amp;#x27;m totally talking out of my butt here, as we all are.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wolframhempel</author><text>I feel there&amp;#x27;s merit to that idea. Basically, in the current regulatory environment in the US under Lina Khan, an outright acquisition by Microsoft would have been met with significant resistance. Especially since AI has just been declared a national risk that needs regulating and Microsoft just bought Activision in what&amp;#x27;s pretty much the largest deal of 2023.&lt;p&gt;So, instead of buying OpenAI outright with all its complicated org structure, paying 13 billion for 49%, acquiring the rights to OpenAI&amp;#x27;s models and code and then insinuating today&amp;#x27;s events with a majority of OpenAI&amp;#x27;s staff leaving for Microsoft would be a really elegant and cunning way to do this.&lt;p&gt;If it is, it might be the most daring bit of business maneuvering we&amp;#x27;ve seen in a decade. But, given Occam&amp;#x27;s razor, it might just as well be a colossal fuckup. Time will tell.</text></comment>
<story><title>OpenAI&apos;s chaos does not add up</title><url>https://builtnotfound.proseful.com/openais-chaos-does-not-add-up</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>skilled</author><text>I have a strange feeling that all of this is about selling OpenAI to Microsoft. I mean is it that unlikely? Everything is pointing in that direction, and maybe there was a loophole that allowed this to happen in a way that doesn&amp;#x27;t make it seem like Microsoft were the ones doing the push.&lt;p&gt;We have to be honest with ourselves and realize that these are billion&amp;#x2F;trillion dollar companies we&amp;#x27;re talking about here, with some of the &amp;quot;smartest&amp;quot; people at the helm. I totally see how an acquisition could be swiped through the means of saying that these people were inexperienced.&lt;p&gt;Disclaimer: I&amp;#x27;m totally talking out of my butt here, as we all are.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JohnFen</author><text>&amp;gt; I have a strange feeling that all of this is about selling OpenAI to Microsoft. I mean is it that unlikely?&lt;p&gt;From the moment that the announcement of the deal with Microsoft happened, it was clear to me that it only ends one way: Microsoft is going to own everything of value that OpenAI has, in one way or another.&lt;p&gt;There never was any other way it could go down regardless of what ideals the OpenAI founders may or may not have had. You can&amp;#x27;t dance with the devil and say you&amp;#x27;re only kidding.</text></comment>