• mortalic@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Wait, isn’t openai basically reliant in Microsoft for hosting as well as most of their product offerings? And doesn’t Microsoft own LinkedIn? Or am I out of the loop.

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      Yeah they have rights to their IP, a share of the first 100 billion in profit they might hypothetically make one day, and provide most (all, up until jan of this year) of their cloud service. They also oppose OpenAI’s bid to convert to a non-profit by year end, which a huge chunk of their funding is dependent upon. It really a strange play tbh.

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      i doubt microsoft cares. they’re going to be competing in the space wherever openAI is hosted, might as well be making money from azure while doing it. Azure probably hosts many companies that compete with microsoft in some way.

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        Openai has an “at cost” azure deal with Microsoft. They don’t make any azure money from them.

        This feels like a mix of “keep the bubble moving somehow” hype and a shot across the bow at Microsoft, who are in a nasty back and forth with Openai right now because openai wants to break its early deals with Microsoft to go fully for profit to get a large amount of funds from Softbank. Microsoft isn’t okay with that, as it would cost them exclusivity to Openais tech and various other things.

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      Yeah you’re right about both things, but OpenAI has been looking to decrease its dependence on Microsoft.