[alexdoesstuff]

I feel people tend to forget that MSFT owns only 49% of OpenAI. There are people owning the rest, and they presumably have some interest in protecting their share of the company from MSFT's aggressive grab. Even if all new development goes to hell, GPT-4 and co are still worth something.

Maybe MSFT really got the deal of a lifetime where they (a) tricked the FTC to not consider anything they are doing to touch antitrust laws due to "only buying 49% of the business" and (b) have a way to "extract" the core assets of OpenAI to the detriment of the remaining shareholders. That's not impossible given the quaint structure OpenAI has and the unusual structuring of the deal with MSFT, but would be quite surprising.