Microsoft has access to almost everything OpenAI does. And now Altman and Brockman will have that access too.
Meanwhile, I imagine their tenure at MSFT will be short-lived, because hot-shot startup folks don’t really want to work there.
They can stabilize, use OpenAI’s data and models for free, use Microsoft’s GPUs at cost, and start a new company shortly, of which Microsoft will own some large share.
Altman doesn’t need Microsoft’s money - but Microsoft has direct access to OpenAI, which is currently priceless.
Github operates independently of Microsoft. (To Microsoft's detriment... they offer Azure Devops which is their enterprisey copy of Github, with entirely different UX and probably different codebase.) They shove the copilot AI now everywhere but it still seems to operate fairly differently.
They didn't really fold LinkedIn in into anything (there are some weird LinkedIn integrations in Teams but that's it)
Google seems to me much worse in this aspect, all Google aquisitions usually become Googley.
Skype sort of became Teams thought, that's true.
GitHub Actions is basically Azure Pipelines repackaged with a different UI, so I don't think they mind much.