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I'm a bit confused. Does MSFT have a perpetual license to the original OpenAI LLC's IP *or* the capped company OpenAI "Global" LLC that was specifically created for MSFT's stake? Because, if the latter, it seems like the new/abandoned/forsaken OpenAI could just fork any new IP back into its original non-microsoft-stained LLC and not be mere tools of Microsoft moving forward.

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Undoubtedly they have a perpet on what they released so far: chatgpt4. Not so for new innovations or tech.

So when the author states that "Microsoft just acquired OpenAI for $0" they mean, effectively, only a fixed-time snapshot of code that is likely old news in about 18 months by the time other models have caught up. Microsoft still needs to execute like mad to make this work out for them. Right now the entire thing seems to rest on the hope that enough talent bleeds out of OpenAI to make this worthwhile. They'll probably get that. But it's still a delicate game. I most wonder what breakthrough Ilya has been alluding to recently [1] and whether it'll be available under MSFT's license.

[1] https://youtu.be/Ft0gTO2K85A?si=YaawmLi8zKrFxwue&t=2303

Plenty of them can go to Google, Anthropic, Apple, Tesla, Amazon or any other attractive company to work for. By attractive I mean they'd be compensated well enough to have a nice life there.

There's not a lot to suggest everyone will jut join M$ by default.

If you have:

- intellectual property as of today

- the servers that run it

- the people that wrote it

- the executive leadership that executed the play so far and know the roadmap ahead

What else do you need?

Development work on GPT5, curated input datasets, human feedback data, archives of all ChatGPT conversations, DALL-E, stats on which users are the big spenders, contracts with cheap labor to generate data and moderate abuse...

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