per FT: > What’s the point of all these subsidiaries? > They’re to give Microsoft a stake in the commercial bit while wearing no responsibility for the Asimov

per FT: > What’s the point of all these subsidiaries? > They’re to give Microsoft a stake in the commercial bit while wearing no responsibility for the Asimov-y stuff that concerns the management layer. This seemed to suit both parties. “From the beginning, [Microsoft] accepted our capped equity offer and our request to leave [artificial general intelligence] technologies and governance for the Nonprofit and the rest of humanity,” they said in 2019. https://www.ft.com/content/6dd292c0-a551-4609-8649-f6b69b20f846 https://www.ft.com/content/6dd292c0-a551-4609-8649-f6b69b20f... (paywalled)