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I think it's pretty smart actually. Altman has sort of linked the fate of OpenAI to that of Nvidia, AMD, Oracle, Microsft etc with these huge deals / partnersh

by yibg 1y ago

I think it's pretty smart actually. Altman has sort of linked the fate of OpenAI to that of Nvidia, AMD, Oracle, Microsft etc with these huge deals / partnerships. We've seen the impact of these deals on stock prices before even a penny has changed hands. Tracks with his reputation for power play and politics.

bigbuppo 1y ago
That certainly explains why Microsoft is so desperate to force everyone into using their AI whether they want to or not. I'm wondering if the deal will end Microsoft when OpenAI goes belly up.
- rhetocj23 1y ago
  Difficult to say for certain. It depends on the extent to which the promise was peddled and whether MSFT can be trusted with the cash balance - investors will reflect that in the stock price in future if there is a bubble bursting event. If that scenario pans out, Apple will be sitting there very pretty given it has not spent any real money on pursuing LLMs.
- noir_lord 1y ago
  It’s rapidly ending my deal with Microsoft. I want windows to play games, for computing I use Linux but they keep foisting shite I don’t want on me just to play games, AI and sodding OneDrive can piss off. I’ve kept windows around because it was less painful to game on than Linux but Linux is better than ever and windows is getting worse, at some point those lines are gonna cross and for the first time in 30 odd years I’ll not be running a single device with a Microsoft operating system on. And they deserve it.
  - int_19h 1y ago
    It's not just pushing it on the users. There's also a heavy-handed push to get teams to use more AI coding inside the company. I'll let you guess what that does to software quality, on average... Regarding Linux gaming, the biggest problem there right now is all the multiplayer games with kernel anti-cheat. But I suspect that it'll be resolved eventually by Valve pushing for SteamOS support (although I doubt it'll ever work on any random Linux distro).
  - numeri 1y ago
    I'll just throw in support for gaming on Linux – it's pretty nice feeling these days! I still have the occasional (once every 5–8 months?) update cause a short-lived bug, but it's a very justifiable trade-off to avoid Windows these days.
  - gubicle 1y ago
    Steam on (arch)linux works so well these days, I haven't needed windows for gaming in a while.
rf15 1y ago
Yes, it's wonderful. I'm young enough to watch them drag each other down in the future, including bailout attempts.

by yibg 1y ago

bigbuppo 1y ago

That certainly explains why Microsoft is so desperate to force everyone into using their AI whether they want to or not. I'm wondering if the deal will end Microsoft when OpenAI goes belly up.

rhetocj23 1y ago
Difficult to say for certain. It depends on the extent to which the promise was peddled and whether MSFT can be trusted with the cash balance - investors will reflect that in the stock price in future if there is a bubble bursting event. If that scenario pans out, Apple will be sitting there very pretty given it has not spent any real money on pursuing LLMs.
noir_lord 1y ago
It’s rapidly ending my deal with Microsoft. I want windows to play games, for computing I use Linux but they keep foisting shite I don’t want on me just to play games, AI and sodding OneDrive can piss off. I’ve kept windows around because it was less painful to game on than Linux but Linux is better than ever and windows is getting worse, at some point those lines are gonna cross and for the first time in 30 odd years I’ll not be running a single device with a Microsoft operating system on. And they deserve it.
- int_19h 1y ago
  It's not just pushing it on the users. There's also a heavy-handed push to get teams to use more AI coding inside the company. I'll let you guess what that does to software quality, on average... Regarding Linux gaming, the biggest problem there right now is all the multiplayer games with kernel anti-cheat. But I suspect that it'll be resolved eventually by Valve pushing for SteamOS support (although I doubt it'll ever work on any random Linux distro).
- numeri 1y ago
  I'll just throw in support for gaming on Linux – it's pretty nice feeling these days! I still have the occasional (once every 5–8 months?) update cause a short-lived bug, but it's a very justifiable trade-off to avoid Windows these days.
- gubicle 1y ago
  Steam on (arch)linux works so well these days, I haven't needed windows for gaming in a while.

rf15 1y ago

Yes, it's wonderful. I'm young enough to watch them drag each other down in the future, including bailout attempts.