I'm pretty sure they just looked at where developers spend their time and invested everywhere they could. They want to own the development experience. Microsoft

I'm pretty sure they just looked at where developers spend their time and invested everywhere they could. They want to own the development experience. Microsoft built VSCode before OpenAI or the transformers paper even existed. It seems clear that the motive was detached from any kind of overly specific AI product direction. EDIT: The article doesn't actually contend what the title suggests it does. So nevermind I guess.