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by JumpCrisscross 942 days ago
> They acquired two of the founders least responsible for the actual tech

Microsoft also “has a perpetual license to all OpenAI IP (short of artificial general intelligence), including source code and model weights.”

If you’re a scientist, OpenAI is a fine place to be, though less differentiated than before. If you’re an engineer more interested in money and don’t want the risk of a start-up, Microsoft seems the obvious path forward.