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Given the amount of compute required to run their models, as well as Microsoft’s investment into the company through providing Azure services, it is quite likely they’ll be acquired by Microsoft.

>>supriy+(OP)
Microsoft just bought in to own 49% in January

>>supriy+(OP)
> Microsoft’s investment into the company through providing Azure services

Microsoft doesn't just provide hardware, it invested literal 10 billion dollars into OAI (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-23/microsoft...). It's fair to say OpenAI is Microsoft's extension now and we should be proportionately wary of what they do, knowing what MS usually does

>>user_n+9
Just enough to avoid an anti-trust suit.

>>user_n+9
If a US citizen has a habit of depositing just under $10,000 dollars in their bank account they'll get charged with "structuring" for intentional avoidance of the regulatory rules. These 49% ownerships are the stock equivalent of structuring and should be prosecuted even more heavily.