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Microsoft and OpenAI's close partnership shows signs of fraying

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321 points jhunter1016 | 2 comments | 18 Oct 24 11:11 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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WithinReason ◴[18 Oct 24 12:04 UTC] No.41878604[source]▶
Does OpenAI have any fundamental advantage beyond brand recognition?
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mhh__ ◴[18 Oct 24 12:08 UTC] No.41878633[source]▶
It's possible that it's only one strong personality and some money away but my guess is that OpenAI-rosoft have the best stack for doing inference "seriously" at big, big, scale e.g. moving away from hacky research python code and so on.
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erickj ◴[18 Oct 24 12:12 UTC] No.41878659[source]▶
Its pretty hard to ignore Google in any discussion on big scale
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mhh__ ◴[18 Oct 24 12:18 UTC] No.41878703[source]▶
Completely right. Was basically only thinking about OpenAI versus Anthropic. Oops
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1. XenophileJKO ◴[18 Oct 24 19:43 UTC] No.41882794[source]▶
Google in their corporate structure, is to cautious to be a serious competitor.
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2. tim333 ◴[18 Oct 24 20:53 UTC] No.41883402[source]▶
I'm not so sure about that. They have kind of opposite incentives to OpenAI. OpenAI starting without much money had to hype the AGI next year stuff to get billions given to them. Google on the other hand is in such a dominant position with most of the search market, much of the ad market, ownership of Deepmind, huge amounts of data and money and so on probably don't want to be seen as a potential monopoly to be broken up.

Also Sergey Brin is back in there working on AI.