If it is the people but not the company that were interesting, OpenAI could make an offer to each of the persons working there. So obviously yes it's an odd de

If it is the people but not the company that were interesting, OpenAI could make an offer to each of the persons working there. So obviously yes it's an odd decision to buy an open-source MMORPG, but there are tons of possibilities. Plenty of times, you can see large companies buying non-sense, or companies at outrageous price (we just don't know the price in the case here). Sometimes even to fire the people behind, and throw away the product. It can be for many reasons: - Either they really have a solid business use which justifies the acquisition or - Perhaps they have a common investor/VC, and that investor is influent enough in OpenAI to "convince" the board to buy the company. or - Some investors give a kickback on the acquisition (I don't think so) or - Microsoft wanted to early kill a competitor to Minecraft. etc. Probably it'll be difficult to know.