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And for the OpenAI employees, they can just switch the badge in a blink second, it almost feel like a no-brainer to many.

I think Sam just took the easier route to rebuild OpenAI within MSFT.

Now the trouble comes to the SV VCs they now will be furious.

>>karmas+(OP)
He wasn't the guy who built it, he was the guy who got things funded. Let's see how many of the core OpenAI people join. I.e. the ones that weren't (just) there for the money / post ChatGPT.

>>karmas+(OP)
And then they get to say one of the most depressing sentences in an engineer's lexicon: "It's almost like we're a startup within a big company!"

>>tdeck+z1
I actually don't think OpenAI being a startup is beneficial for them at this moment.

OpenAI already has a very clear business model, that is selling completion/chat/agent API based on their model. What they need is to productize it.

Their roadmap is GPT4/5/6/7

>>karmas+(OP)
Imagine thinking that top AI researchers are going to start choosing to work for MSFT after years of them being second class citizens there.

Like if they don’t like OpenAI they can go to 10 other places that pay more and treat researchers better than MSFT

>>tempus+O4
MSFT isn't as much as an underdog you would think.

MSRA invented ResNet. MSFT also contributed DeepSpeed to the open source, which is critical in OSS LLM scene.

It is now more of just a branding thing. It will become the new cool again.

And OpenAI? After this week, how would the people view them? Definitely not envious or prestige.

>>smooc+91
Do OpenAI staff want to work for Microsoft?

>>karmas+(OP)
Did Sam build OpenAI in the first place?

>>peanut+Xd
Yes? Each person OpenAI hired is passed through Sam.

Or you think Ilya wrote every line of code of GPT4?