Might as well have acquired OpenAI in the first place given that it was 49% owned by Microsoft anyway but taken over by a coup.
Now we'll see if the employees who are quitting will follow Sam and Greg. Google is still at risk without Gemini being released.
Read about their structure. Msft doesn't own anything. They are an investor. This is different, in thus case.
The non profit owns the for profit. Msft has 49 percent of the for profit. Sunset clause after profit benchmarks. Ownership returns 100 percent to non profit.
Stop getting meme'd on by the crowd. That goes to the 90 plus percent of other commenter's spreading misinformation on hn.