[nexuist]

I hope one day we can drop the corporate facade so these blog posts can be two to three sentences of "Our company sucked. Microsoft wanted to give me a fuck ton of money. I decided to take it. Some other guy is in charge now. Good luck!"

[bee_rider]

Does getting acquhired by MS imply your company sucked?

There are things I like about where I’m at but if MS really wanted to they could send enough dump trucks full of cash to ruin the local traffic situation. Is it worth staying at a place if you can’t even get out of the driveway to get to your favorite little cafe?

[hinkley]

It means your people are good and your product isn’t. That requires a kind of cognitive dissonance that some people would call “suckage”. Certainly had that conversation many, many times.

Just be careful you aren’t Boeing buying McDonell Douglas, where the cut throat culture infected the host and killed it, rather than being muted and managed out.

[dbish]

Eh I think some startup culture injected into Microsoft is a good thing, whatever that might mean. Have to shake things up

[nyokodo]

> startup culture injected into Microsoft is a good thing

Companies like Microsoft have consumed countless startups and startup employees over the decades and are practiced at digesting them without being changed all that much.

[dbish]

It’s a bit different when you’re replacing or creating the head of a division since they’ll replace their own lieutenants and onwards down

[RockyMcNuts]

didn't really get acquihired, which would be if MSFT bought inflection, instead it seems MSFT hired away a team, probably with options and whatnot.

[aeternum]

Ironically, AI will probably help to provide this.

Could probably do it now with a browser plugin and the right llm prompt. Perhaps call it the un-BSifier.

[OtherShrezzing]

The prompt "summarise this in 2-3 sentences in the least charitable way possible" returned the following on chat.mistral.ai

>Inflection is changing its business model again, now trying to sell its AI services to commercial clients after realizing people can't replicate their AI model. They're losing two co-founders to Microsoft and bringing in some new CEO to run the show. They claim nothing will change for users, but who knows what will happen with all these changes going on.

[jack_riminton]

You could set this up as a service on unbullshitthis.com

[duxup]

I think we can assume almost all acquisitions are "this cash is better than continuing to operate as we were.... make of that what you will".

[guytv]

I asked ChatGPT to summarize, this is what it came up with:

* Inflection shifts focus to AI studio business, developing custom AI models for commercial use.

* Plans to host Inflection-2.5 on Microsoft Azure, with plans for other cloud platforms.

* API launch soon, sign-ups for early access open.

* Co-founders Mustafa and Karén to start Microsoft AI, leaving Inflection.

* Sean White appointed new CEO; Reid Hoffman remains on board.

* No immediate changes to Pi service; privacy and data policies unchanged.

[f6v]

Maybe someone try training an LLM to do just that.

[kookamamie]

Hear, hear! There is a market for a no-bs-happenings.com.

[gcnnbdff]

A lot of people don’t know this but all these VC valuations are fake, they had this planned years ago to fake growth.