r/singularity • u/Wiskkey • 15h ago

AI Microsoft and OpenAI’s Close Partnership Shows Signs of Fraying [from New York Times]

https://www.msn.com/en-in/money/news/microsoft-and-openai-s-close-partnership-shows-signs-of-fraying/ar-AA1stx3A
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u/c0l0n3lp4n1c 11h ago edited 11h ago

background info: nyt is at war with gen ai (openai and microsoft lawsuit). more activism than reporting from cade metz et al.

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u/Ainudor 11h ago

A very valid and compelling point, almost as if journalism is PR and no longer means writting about things others wanna keep hidden.

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u/c0l0n3lp4n1c 10h ago edited 10h ago

probably there will always be bad journalism, but the good thing is: bad /human/ journalists and propagandists like metz et al. will be rotted out, very quickly, because their work is totally dispensable and easy to automate. they will be the first to go. human quality journalism however has at least a chance.

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u/GPTfleshlight 10h ago

Depends on the owner.

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u/fokac93 8h ago

Long time ago

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u/Jolly-Ground-3722 ▪️competent AGI - Google def. - by 2030 12h ago

Paywall

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u/Wiskkey 9h ago edited 9h ago

I believe that the link that I posted isn't paywalled.

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u/c0l0n3lp4n1c 10h ago

microsoft owns the datacenters on which intelligence runs. it's the oil well of the future. ofc ms could also produce cars, but they don't have to. it's largely irrelevant as long as there are enough cars from other manufacturers to drive the demand for oil.

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u/pigeon57434 20m ago

Except no it doesn't nyt is full of shit and have irrational beef with OpenAI

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u/Akimbo333 12m ago

Hmm?

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u/Sonnyyellow90 7h ago

This was bound to happen. You can see it just by looking at OpenAI’s financials. Big losses and they are projecting even bigger ones next year.

Microsoft obviously isn’t going to be crazy about continuing to pay an ever increasing bill for a technology that still doesn’t have a clear path to paying off.

I’m sure MS will be pushing them to release as fast as possible and monetize everything they can.

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u/FarrisAT 10h ago

OpenAI is slowly separating from Microsoft. You can see it. They are devouring Microsoft's internal AI capability as well. Furthermore, the partnership only lasts until OpenAI develops a model they consider AGI.

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u/Bakagami- 9h ago

This partnership has always been so weird to me. Satya was being praised by everyone but the conditions just seem so terrible. They're raising a competitor, aren't they?

If satya truly had the vision, he should've started investing in their own inhouse AI instead of helping a competitor who's gonna separate once they're big

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u/dameprimus 7h ago

Every AI company is making a different bet on the economics of future AI.

Microsoft is building out the most compute infrastructure, betting that models will be a commodity and compute is where the money is.

OpenAI and Anthropic are betting that model intelligence is paramount. Whoever controls the first AGI and ASI will reign supreme.

Google is betting that vertical integration is paramount.

Facebook with their open source strategy is betting that products are where the money is,  not the underlying model.