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

What does AI upskilling even mean? Isnt the premise of AI that you can do everything just with natural language, everybody already knows how to talk/write about what they want. And if they mean AI adjacent things like RAG, then thats just software engineering with API calls wrapped with english prompts, and upskilling software engineering with AI kinda works but we’ve already seen a lot of vibe coded disasters.