I hope one day we can drop the corporate facade so these blog posts can be two to three sentences of "Our company sucked. Microsoft wanted to give me a fuck ton of money. I decided to take it. Some other guy is in charge now. Good luck!"
There are things I like about where I’m at but if MS really wanted to they could send enough dump trucks full of cash to ruin the local traffic situation. Is it worth staying at a place if you can’t even get out of the driveway to get to your favorite little cafe?
Just be careful you aren’t Boeing buying McDonell Douglas, where the cut throat culture infected the host and killed it, rather than being muted and managed out.
Companies like Microsoft have consumed countless startups and startup employees over the decades and are practiced at digesting them without being changed all that much.
Could probably do it now with a browser plugin and the right llm prompt. Perhaps call it the un-BSifier.
>Inflection is changing its business model again, now trying to sell its AI services to commercial clients after realizing people can't replicate their AI model. They're losing two co-founders to Microsoft and bringing in some new CEO to run the show. They claim nothing will change for users, but who knows what will happen with all these changes going on.
* Inflection shifts focus to AI studio business, developing custom AI models for commercial use.
* Plans to host Inflection-2.5 on Microsoft Azure, with plans for other cloud platforms.
* API launch soon, sign-ups for early access open.
* Co-founders Mustafa and Karén to start Microsoft AI, leaving Inflection.
* Sean White appointed new CEO; Reid Hoffman remains on board.
* No immediate changes to Pi service; privacy and data policies unchanged.