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Microsoft has licensing rights to OpenAI tech. They do not “have it” in the sense they control it.

by fnordpiglet 3y ago

lordfrito 3y ago
Well I read Nadella threatened to turn off OpenAI's servers, so yeah, Microsoft does in fact control it. Not your premises not your compute?
- fnordpiglet 3y ago
  Even threatening that, if disclosed publicly, would entirely threaten Azures business model. Cloud providers try to stay entirely neutral to their users business insofar as they don’t breach a ToS, law, or regulation forcing their actions. The entire business model is trusting a third party with the keys to your business. In my time working as a senior person at a cloud provider, then as a person setting system for major customers of cloud providers, this specific point was sacrosanct and invariant. Crossing that line would be a huge breach of the business model. I think in this case I would need to see a source to believe you, and if substantiated, it would make me question Nadellas fitness to lead a cloud computing business.
  - lordfrito 3y ago
    Can't find the original thing I read with a more direct statement, I remember it being an anonymous source (on twitter maybe?) with inside info. I did more digging and found a few other things. There's this [1], a NYT article saying that Microsoft is leading the pressure campaign to get Altman reinstated. And there's this [2], a Forbes article which claims the playbook is a combination of mass internal revolt, withheld cloud computing credits from Microsoft, and a lawsuit from investors. [1] https://archive.is/fEVTK#selection-517.0-521.120 https://archive.is/fEVTK#selection-517.0-521.120 [2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2023/11/18/openai-investors-scramble-to-reinstate-sam-altman-as-ceo/?sh=5273e9a260da https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2023/11/18/openai-in...

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Microsoft has licensing rights to OpenAI tech. They do not “have it” in the sense they control it.

by fnordpiglet 3y ago

Microsoft has licensing rights to OpenAI tech. They do not “have it” in the sense they control it.

lordfrito 3y ago
Well I read Nadella threatened to turn off OpenAI's servers, so yeah, Microsoft does in fact control it. Not your premises not your compute?
- fnordpiglet 3y ago
  Even threatening that, if disclosed publicly, would entirely threaten Azures business model. Cloud providers try to stay entirely neutral to their users business insofar as they don’t breach a ToS, law, or regulation forcing their actions. The entire business model is trusting a third party with the keys to your business. In my time working as a senior person at a cloud provider, then as a person setting system for major customers of cloud providers, this specific point was sacrosanct and invariant. Crossing that line would be a huge breach of the business model. I think in this case I would need to see a source to believe you, and if substantiated, it would make me question Nadellas fitness to lead a cloud computing business.
  - lordfrito 3y ago
    Can't find the original thing I read with a more direct statement, I remember it being an anonymous source (on twitter maybe?) with inside info. I did more digging and found a few other things. There's this [1], a NYT article saying that Microsoft is leading the pressure campaign to get Altman reinstated. And there's this [2], a Forbes article which claims the playbook is a combination of mass internal revolt, withheld cloud computing credits from Microsoft, and a lawsuit from investors. [1] https://archive.is/fEVTK#selection-517.0-521.120 https://archive.is/fEVTK#selection-517.0-521.120 [2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2023/11/18/openai-investors-scramble-to-reinstate-sam-altman-as-ceo/?sh=5273e9a260da https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2023/11/18/openai-in...