Microsoft and OpenAI's close partnership shows signs of fraying

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321 points jhunter1016 | 1 comments | 18 Oct 24 11:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.219s | source

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Roark66 ◴[18 Oct 24 12:02 UTC] No.41878594[source]▶

>OpenAI plans to loose $5 billion this year

Let that sink in for anyone that has incorporated Chatgpt in their work routines to the point their normal skills start to atrophy. Imagine in 2 years time OpenAI goes bust and MS gets all the IP. Now you can't really do your work without ChatGPT, but it cost has been brought up to how much it really costs to run. Maybe $2k per month per person? And you get about 1h of use per day for the money too...

I've been saying for ages, being a luditite and abstaining from using AI is not the answer (no one is tiling the fields with oxen anymore either). But it is crucial to at the very least retain 50% of capability hosted models like Chatgpt offer locally.

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chrsw ◴[18 Oct 24 12:20 UTC] No.41878717[source]▶

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What if your competition is willing to give up autonomy to companies like Microsoft/Open AI a bet to race head of you and it comes off?

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1. achierius ◴[18 Oct 24 18:57 UTC] No.41882381[source]▶

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It's a devil's bargain, and not just in terms of the _individual_ payoffs that OpenAI employees/executives might receive. There's a reason why Google/Microsoft/Amazon/... ultimately failed to take the lead in GenAI, despite every conceivable advantage (researchers, infrastructure, compute, established vendor relationships, ...). The "autonomy" of a startup is what allows it to be nimble; the more Microsoft is able to tell OpenAI what to do, the more I expect them to act like DeepMind, a research group set apart from their parent company but still beholden to it.

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