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>>andsoi+(OP)
You can hear Microsoft’s billions going up in flames. You literally couldn’t make this stuff up.

>>JCM9+l
Actually this is going to be great for Microsoft.

By cutting its other revenue streams OpenAI has lost all of its leverage.

So now will shrink to being effectively an external dev team for Bing / Windows.

>>threes+M1
Huh? Last time I checked I'm paying OpenAI for my Chatgpt plus subscription, not msft

>>nextwo+S2
ChatGPT Plus was never intended to be OpenAI's main revenue stream. The real cash is in the GPT API, which they're currently making good money on, but which also directly competes with a GPT API offered by Azure.

OP might have a point: if OpenAI declines, devs might prefer the Azure API over the OpenAI API for factors like stability, quality, response time, better integration with existing Azure stack, etc.