I was confused when the whole thing was going down.
I was more confused when the whole "board wants to backtrack and maybe resign" thing was going down.
I got even more confused when Emmett Shear was announced as the CEO.
...but never in a hundred years would I have imagined "haha just join Microsoft" as an actual alternative.
I remain, confused.
This move makes it exactly clear what was going on. Microsoft is doing to AI what they tried to do to Internet browsers back in the day. I wonder if they'd have been successful if they'd managed to buy the board of Netscape.
I suspect it's rather possible that there will be an ungodly-massive lawsuit in the offing.