This is the equivalent of me coming to you and promising you money so that you can pull off a risky business move, then at the critical moment when I don’t like something pulling that money. Sure I might be entitled to do that as it is my money, but it’s a dick move and would certainly leave you holding the bag.
It is extremely delusional to expect to receive $1 billion dollars unconditionally.
Do you honestly believe that if you were in Elon Musks shoes, that you would have given away a billion dollars without any conditions? How would you feel when you saw them turn around and sell out to Microsoft instead? Expecting $1B unconditionally seems like an asshole expectation. Delusional and childish entitlement.
Do you believe that Microsoft has donated billions to OpenAI unconditionally?
They did not give up control to Microsoft.
If that were true, the Apple deal (which Microsoft opposed) would not have just happened.
Microsoft needs Apple as a strong competitor. Otherwise they will be declared a monopoly and broken up by regulators. Microsoft was smart to use OpenAI as a proxy for this deal.
LOL!
I would love to see your evidence that Apple's new AI offering will be running on Microsoft's infrastructure.
OpenAI models run on Azure infrastructure. Apple is just a client and will be paying Microsoft via OpenAI to run it.
Apple also has their own models running on their own infrastructure. I'm not saying that Microsoft or OpenAI has anything to do with that.
Microsoft was a breakup risk back when all that existed were computers and they had 95+% market share.
On the contrary, it was the fact Elon pulled the $1B he had previously offered that put the company in jeopardy.
https://www.semafor.com/article/03/24/2023/the-secret-histor...
The story I heard was that Musk pulled the $1B and THEN they were forced to go profit in order to survive.
https://www.semafor.com/article/03/24/2023/the-secret-histor...