OpenAI has received just a fraction of Microsoft's $10B investment(semafor.com)

18 pointsby CharlesW3 ปีที่แล้ว3 comments

OpenAI has received just a fraction of Microsoft's $10B investment

https://www.semafor.com/article/11/18/2023/openai-has-received-just-a-fraction-of-microsofts-10-billion-investment

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suggala3 ปีที่แล้ว

The current deal with MSFT is cut by Sam is in such a way that Microsoft has huge leverage. Exclusive access, exclusive profit. And after all the profit limit is reached OpenAI sill need to be sold to msft to survive. This is like a worst deal for OpenAI whose goal is to do stuff open source way and it can’t do so due to this deal. If it is not for the MSFt deal, OpenAI could have open sourced and might have resorted to crowdsourcing which might have helped humanity. Also, quickly reaching profit goals is only good for MSFT. There is no need to actually send money to OpenAI team, just provide operating expenses with 25% profit and take 75% profit. OpenAI has built a great software due to years of work and is being simply being milked by MSFt when the time comes for taking profit.

And SAM allowed all this under his nose. Making sure OpenAI is ripe for MSFT takeover. This is a back channel deal for takeover. What about the earth donors who donated with humanity goal whose funding made it all possible?

I am not sure Sam has any contribution to the OpenAI Software but he gives the world an impression that he owns that and built the entire thing by himself and not giving any attribution to fellow founders.

free_bip3 ปีที่แล้ว

I'm not exactly a VC investment recipient or anything, but it makes sense to me that investments (especially particularly massive ones like this) would be done in many installments... So nothing to see here?

gumballindie3 ปีที่แล้ว

I mean the media has to write about something to drive clicks.