Comment on Microsoft joins OpenAI’s board with Sam Altman officially back as CEO

echo64@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah this feels like some kind of coup

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  • be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Embrace, Extend, Extinguish

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    • LufyCZ@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Lol no.

      They aren’t going to extinguish OpenAI, they are going to use their tech for everything

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      • be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨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.

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      • echo64@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨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

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      • Meowoem@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        They’re going to extinguish the ability of others to use it to displace them

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  • VubDapple@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My speculation is that they paid Sutskever a lot of money to go away and keep his mouth shut

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• cyd@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨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

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• Knusper@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah, at this point, it feels like beating a dead horse, but somehow they’re still doing Embrace-Extend-Extinguish…

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• Substance_P@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Exactly what I was thinking.

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