I'd retitle this as "OpenAI's blunder and Microsoft's excellent damage control"

I don't think Microsoft is necessarily in a better position than it was on Thursday. If we're tallying up points:

    + More control over the full AI stack
    + Effectively they will own what was once OpenAI, but is now really OpenAI 2.0
    - OpenAI 2.0 is probably a worse business than OpenAI 1.0, which was, prior to the coup, a well-oiled machine
    + Control over OpenAI 2.0 operations, which can lead to better execution in the long term
    - Higher wage costs
    - Business disruption at OpenAI, delaying projects
    - Potential OpenAI departures to competitors like Google, Meta, Anthropic, Amazon, Apple (?)
    - Risk that OpenAI 1.0 (what's left of it) either sells to any of those competitors
    - Risk that OpenAI 1.0 actually goes open source and releases GPT-4 weights