The investment makes sense for a company with a ton of products that naturally integrate with AI. Gemini is how I search these days. and finally Google got me to pay a monthly fee to them, especially with YouTube plus included in the price (for now at least).
Also mentioned was Apple, who gets to shrug and carry on... now with fewer manufacturing issues.
Microsoft has to be shaking. For the first time in three-or-so decades they were finally involved in something big when it happened instead of being years behind everyone else. If this crashes they're going to have people jumping out of windows.
Their stock hasn't really seen much upside from this whole AI thing, so I don't really see how they'd get punished that badly. At least they have a public cloud business where they can rent out capacity to reduce the loss.
Maybe if OpenAI goes bankrupt, they might be punished more. Or it could be an opportunity for them to scavenge. Oracle is a lot more fucked if that happens.