[tomComb]

It is true that big companies have brands and existing revenue stream to protect (Google), so maybe only a little company with nothing to lose could do what OpenAI did.

And maybe MS found the perfect arrangement giving them an ability to adjust how closely to associate themself with the tech according to need.

But is this all necessarily a good thing? OpenAI gave MS access to GPT and MS clearly wants to use GPT to destroy Google, so Google now has respond aggressively, and now we have exactly the AI arms race that many predicted would lead to the worst outcomes.

[pydry]

In that case they might have picked the worst time to push through layoffs.