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Satya Nadella's Statement on OpenAI

blogs.microsoft.com

86 pointssanketsaurav18 comments

Since there's already a Microsoft-OpenAI thread on the front page and this article says even less than that one does, I suppose we can just stick with what we have for now:

Microsoft was blindsided by OpenAI's ouster of CEO Sam Altman - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38312372

“Full access to everything we need.” == “We have our hands around your…”

Well - that could be one way of looking at it...

But on other other side of a hypothetical situation spectrum, it could also mean something like "Our agreement with OpenAI provides us with robust fallback access to Source Code, Training recipes and Model data in escrow should a particular trigger situation happen."

“Full access to everything we need.” == “We have carefully crafted contractual agreements in place and a huge and very experienced legal department ready at a moment's notice to enforce them.”

Ultimately, that amounts to the same thing you said anyway.

This reads like he's trying to calm investors to save MSFT... Monday is going to be interesting!

"save Microsoft", really? Are their multiple enterprise moats going to disappear because Altman got fired?

Microsoft lost more than $20b on Nokia, Skype, WinPhone and RT OS, and barely blinked.

I meant save the stock MSFT from dipping, obviously it’s not going to crash and burn but I’m sure a 5% dip is possible.

5% ups and downs happen all the time.

It was definitely a shitty move on MS, and Satya being the CEO is right to express they're upset.

"full access to everything" feels like a shot across the bow sending a very clear signal the new board should not attempt to limit access to rapid commercial exploitation of any research results emanating from OpenAI for whatever reason given, be it 'alignment', 'safety' or disproportionate exclusive leverage running afoul of OpenAI's original mission.

Corporate advertisement disguised as a response.

The silence is deafening.

Which could well be an indication they did not know this was going to happen...

This statement is the absolute bare minimum they could have written. Terse, no marketing, straight to the point. Its nice for a change.

But given the usual verbiage / pomp-and-circumstance (etc. etc.) on typical announcements, getting something so short and simple like this just feels weird.

Definitely short, but I feel it is still ~80% marketing.

You could cut out:

> As you saw at Microsoft Ignite this week, we’re continuing to rapidly innovate for this era of AI, with over 100 announcements across the full tech stack from AI systems, models, and tools in Azure, to Copilot. Most importantly, we’re committed to delivering all of this to our customers while building for the future. [...] to deliver on our innovation agenda and an exciting product roadmap [...] Together, we will continue to deliver the meaningful benefits of this technology to the world.

And still keep the relevant info with just:

> We have a long-term agreement with OpenAI with full access to everything we need [...] and remain committed to our partnership, and to Mira and the team.

I think the statement is for investors to assure them that they have solid legal contracts with OpenAI that will carry on regardless of what happens in OpenAI's leadership.

A fine example of why MSFT is an investment and reliability risk in the industry.

Can you elaborate? Clearly MSFT has lot riding on the OpenAI wave and the PR statement looks more like a statement to the open AI board that there are signed agreements in place that MSFT expects to be honored. It seems to be a stretch to say MSFT itself is a reliability risk!

“We still can build things with your data, you know for the shareholders”

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