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This is a lot of jumping up and down over nothing. Think about it when the deal was on the table: 1) Take the money. If OpenAI fail, MS get the code. OK, who
by nprateem 3y ago
This is a lot of jumping up and down over nothing.
Think about it when the deal was on the table:
1) Take the money. If OpenAI fail, MS get the code. OK, who cares, OpenAI have gone bust.
2) Don't take the money, don't become successful unless they can find another partner with such a good fit (deep pockets and resources).
It made sense to allow MS to have the code if OpenAI failed since they'd have had nothing to lose apart from whatever residual value they could sell their IP for (which they already were effectively doing for $10B, so fair enough). If this was a sticking point to secure a $10B investment, it made sense. OTOH if they granted the IP to MS not contingent on OpenAI failing, then that would have been sheer incompetence.
- notahacker 3y agoOption 3: negotiate a deal with a corporate partner with terms that mean it's more lucrative for them to help you succeed rather than take steps to ensure you fail at the first sign of trouble seems like a better choice. Clearly the possibility of OpenAI failing is not independent from the behaviour of its corporate partner. And I'm not sure Microsoft's negotiation is quite bad faith enough or their interest in OpenAI low enough to have made the entire deal contingent on the "if/when we decide to move aggressively against your company so it collapses we get exclusive free in perpetuity access to everything you ever did and no more caps to the profits from them" clause. If it's in there, it's in there because they signed a bad deal rather than because it was the only possibility.
- jacquesm 3y agoWho will do that after MS already has been given all but the keys to the kingdom, and with all of the results of your efforts almost automatically flowing to your competitor by way of the deal that precedes yours?
- notahacker 3y agoIts the original deal I'm saying shouldnt have been considered on "keys to the kingdom... if we should happen to unfortunately die" terms (I think my edit to make that clearer came after your post)