They already do. Their licensing agreement with OpenAI is crazily favourable to them. They have basically unlimited rights to use OpenAI’s tech forever, and have a claim on most of OpenAI’s future profits.
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echo64@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I don’t know how it will eventually happen, but Microsoft is going to own everything open ai someday. They are playing the long game
cyd@lemmy.world 7 months ago
echo64@lemmy.world 7 months ago
right now they have a very favourable deal, but don’t control the for-profit entity or the non-profit entity (officially) - which means all they can actually leverage is the tech that openai makes for their own uses.
and microsoft making things often just flops hard, look at what they are doing with it, your start menu talks to you now.
the goal is not to have a favourable deal, it’s to grow shareholder value by owning openai in 6-7 years
Knusper@feddit.de 7 months ago
Yeah, at this point, it feels like beating a dead horse, but somehow they’re still doing Embrace-Extend-Extinguish…
Substance_P@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Exactly what I was thinking.
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Yeah this feels like some kind of coup
be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social 7 months ago
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish
LufyCZ@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Lol no.
They aren’t going to extinguish OpenAI, they are going to use their tech for everything
be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social 7 months ago
Extinguish isn't about snuffing the tech out, it's about pushing everyone else out of the market after you have extended it in a proprietary fashion and used your market dominance to create a defacto monopoly.
echo64@lemmy.world 7 months ago
No, they are going to sell the tech to others, microsoft doesnt know what to do with it. Extinguish doesn’t mean the thing no longer exists, it means that the entity openai, and it’s mission and what it was created for gets extinguished. And microsofts version of that geared towards shareholder value
Meowoem@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
They’re going to extinguish the ability of others to use it to displace them
VubDapple@lemmy.world 7 months ago
My speculation is that they paid Sutskever a lot of money to go away and keep his mouth shut