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If it was, companies like Microsoft and Apple would have acquired them a long time ago. The fact they decided to have a partnership means they have reason to be
by gtirloni 2y ago
If it was, companies like Microsoft and Apple would have acquired them a long time ago. The fact they decided to have a partnership means they have reason to believe the hype isn't real beyond what we already know today and they don't want to have to explain it to shareholders in the near future.
- aero-glide2 2y agoThey haven't acquired because Open AI is not for sale.
- gtirloni 2y agoThere's no such thing. Every company is up for sale, if you have the money. Rare exceptions are old companies where the founder is still around and rejects deal after deal on pride. OpenAI is nothing like that, as the profit/non-profit drama exemplifies.
- llmfan 2y agoDoesn't Microsoft have a decent amount of ownership in some aspect of OpenAI's labyrinthine structure? Take Anthropic for a more legible example: Amazon and Google both gladly bought large stakes in it.
- gtirloni 2y agoWhy buy stakes and not the whole thing to block your competitors from making deals with them? This is big corp 101 and has happened countless times. It's even more likely if OpenAI is to be a $7T company in the future. Such an acquisition would be approved in a second... if the hype was real.
- 4ggr0 2y ago> Why buy stakes and not the whole thing To give less reasons for people and governments to accuse them of monopolistic behaviour. Maybe. Wild speculations from my end.