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It seems incredibly risky to give Microsoft’s lawyers $10bn worth of reason to take a close look at a novel corporate structure and surrounding case law. Why no
by junofan 3y ago
It seems incredibly risky to give Microsoft’s lawyers $10bn worth of reason to take a close look at a novel corporate structure and surrounding case law. Why not cut a deal for a spin out?
- bugglebeetle 3y agoUnless their contract had a specific stipulation that Altman shake hands on a stage with Nadella every three months or something, this seems largely irrelevant. So long as OpenAI continues to honor the deal terms about technology access, I don’t see how they’re exposed.
- dragonwriter 3y ago> It seems incredibly risky to give Microsoft’s lawyers $10bn worth of reason to take a close look at a novel corporate structure and surrounding case law. Presumably, Microsoft’s lawyers did that before they bought into the novel corporate structure. I mean, its Microsoft, not Elon Musk. Due diligence is a thing.
- kristjansson 3y agoSo they’ll be that much faster filing whatever they’re going to file tomorrow morning. There’s also the realpolitik of the situation - MSFT owns and controls the compute, in the worst case they can take their ball and go play somewhere else