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Why is it called an investment? Is OpenAI a corporation that plans to pay out dividends? I thought it's more of a non-profit. This deal looks more like a donati

Why is it called an investment? Is OpenAI a corporation that plans to pay out dividends? I thought it's more of a non-profit. This deal looks more like a donation of cloud compute resources. Still a great idea (moves ML research closer to their platform, eating more of Google's lunch), but it's not an investment in OpenAI.

BigChiefSmokem 7y ago
Because Microsoft has calculated a reasonable ROI to make it worth it.
- one2know 7y ago
  Or management wants to exfiltrate $1B of shareholder dollars.
- H8crilA 7y ago
  Yeah but how's the return exactly going to come about (dividends? merger and talent takeover?), that's the question. I can see it returning itself via better ML sales on Azure.
gdb 7y ago
The investment is in OpenAI LP: https://openai.com/blog/openai-lp/ https://openai.com/blog/openai-lp/!
cma 7y ago
I think they decided to go ahead and not be a charity in addition to not being open.