Microsoft vs. OpenAI: The $50 Billion Betrayal
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Discussion of the blog article Microsoft vs. OpenAI: The $50 Billion Betrayal.
Microsoft gave OpenAI $13 billion and exclusive cloud access. OpenAI took the money, restructured itself into a for-profit company, handed a $50 billion deal to Amazon instead, and is now building a competitor to GitHub. This is what a corporate backstab looks like in slow motion.
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