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by giancarlostoro 252 days ago
Similar to how Microsoft bought out nearly half of OpenAI, though they offered compute credits IIRC. I wonder how much into Microsoft's investment OpenAI is in.

Edit: Apparently what Microsoft owns is 49% profit-sharing interest in OpenAI, specifically in the 'capped profit' for profit subsidiary. So weird, but hey, it's still a slice of the pie. Plus they can exclusively sell access to the models.
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rvba 252 days ago
Microsoft seems to have made a good deal: it got the models AND profits.

Also microsoft is pushing copilot to office and I think it will sell. Since they sell to general B2B and not only to the peogrammer niche.

AMD is trying to buy market share by donating 10% equity. I also think it is crazy

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giancarlostoro 252 days ago
Yeah, I heard about when ChatGPT removed I think it was O4? apparently there's an entire community devoted to "role playing" or rather dating a character powered by the model. GPT5 broke their entire relationship. Me and a few friends agreed it might have been worth spinning up a dating GPT O4 based service for those people to pay to migrate their AI 'companions' to. Azure still has these "abandoned" models.

On the other note, it also helps OpenAI because they don't have to manage setting up all that infrastructure just to let others use the model.

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