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Wonder how long this will last. This team doesn't seem like a good fit for big corp Microsoft.

Good get by MS though!

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What value does Sam bring now? They have all the money they could want. All the connections they’d need.

Weird situation for him.

Agreed. Sam isn’t some AI visionary, he’s a startup guy. Unless he’s leading a team that’s going to spin out a new company, I don’t get it.

I guess he'll make the consumer hardware product he's been developing with Jony Ive, and also spin up the chip company he was working on anyway.

Researchers can not be 'AI visionaries', almost by definition, as you focus on depth instead of breadth as a competent researcher.

Someone like Sam Altman is indeed more of a visionary than every hardcore AI researcher. The job here is to not push the boundaries of science, it is to figure out and predict the cascading effects of a new invention.

He was the face of OpenAI, MSFT is basically trying to signal: Business as usual, nothing to see here, move along and please don't tank our stock

>please don't tank our stock

ding ding ding

It's mind boggling that a corporation of that size would care about stock fluctuations on the order of minutes, hours, and days.

It really does feel like that. Like it’s mutually beneficial for Sam and MSFT to team up in the short term while Sam figures out his next move and MSFT tries to keep OpenAI afloat for the time being

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