[aneutron]

Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but for me it is us framed as if they won't be working on GPT-based products, but on research.

The whole thing reads like this to me: "In hindsight, we should've done more due diligence before developing a hard dependency on an organization and its product. We are aware that this was a mistake. To combat this, we will do damage control and continue to work with OpenAI, while developing our in-house solution and ditching this hard dependency. Sam & Co. will reproduce this and it will be fully under our control. So rest assured dear investors."

[nga911]

How do you conduct research with sales people? even if they manage to bring in researchers from OpenAI, the only gain here is microsoft getting some of the researchers behind the products and/or product developers.

[icelancer]

Ah yes, Greg Brockman, former CTO of Stripe (amongst other things)... sales person.

[aneutron]

Well, the same way a man with drive, discipline and money but very little in the way of technical expertise can build a company.

Sometimes you need someone who can drive a project and recruit the right people for the project. That person does not always need to be a subject matter expert.

[morgante]

Who are these "sales people" you're referring to? Surely not Greg Brockman, one of the most talented engineers in the world.

[laserlight]

> Greg Brockman, one of the most talented engineers in the world.

Can you help me understand how you came to the conclusion?

[morgante]

People who worked with him at OpenAI and Stripe.

[lucubratory]

He has technical skill, you don't need to oversell him. He's not Ilya.