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author: no one quotes in article: none dates / timelines for partnership deliverables: none was this written by chatgpt?

The “author” appears to be “OpenAI” (i.e., posting on behalf of the company) and they’ve posted like that numerous times before [1].

[1]: https://openai.com/blog/authors/openai

Re: OpenAI and Microsoft extend partnership

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post #11

Related (?): Is ChatGPT down at the moment? When I visit it, I am getting a poem about how it is over capacity. And that's it.

Is ChatGPT down at the moment?

No, but ChatGPT is at full capacity which means that it will 'randomly' block new connections until load drops. Keep trying every 5 - 10 minutes and you'll eventually get in

Re: OpenAI and Microsoft extend partnership

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post #8

> In pursuit of our mission to ensure advanced AI benefits all of humanity, OpenAI remains a capped-profit company and is governed by the OpenAI non-profit. This structure allows us to raise the capital we need to fulfill our mission without sacrificing our core beliefs about broadly sharing benefits and the need to prioritize safety. All this time, I was entirely unaware of this.

The cap is 100x, so assuming Microsoft is investing billions in a current valuation of $29 billion as rumoured, the cap will only really come into place once OpenAI becomes the most valuable company in the world.

Re: OpenAI and Microsoft extend partnership

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post #9

Related MS announcement with some more details: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/01/23/microsoftandopen...

“Microsoft will deploy OpenAI’s models across our consumer and enterprise products and introduce new categories of digital experiences built on OpenAI’s technology. This includes Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service [0], which empowers developers to build cutting-edge AI applications through direct access to OpenAI models backed by Azure’s trusted, enterprise-grade capabilities and AI-optimized infrastructure and tools.”

[0] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/general-availability-...

Re: OpenAI and Microsoft extend partnership

#16

> We’ve also worked together to build OpenAI’s technology into apps like GitHub Copilot and Microsoft Designer. Good. I get better results from chatGpt than from Copilot. For example, often Copilot would invoke a bash command for copying a file in my python script, instead of using pythons buildin shutil.

Copilot may be one of the most valuable early use cases for chat AI.

I've been brushing off AI as overhyped, but this is very compelling. I believe the real crux of software engineering is thinking about the problem and organizing solutions today which can be changed/improved/iterated in the future. Programmers too often overweight the time it takes to type things (using short variable & function names or creating terse 1 liners). But if our objective is to make code easy to change/improve/iterate in the future, then it needs to be readable now.

The nice autocomplete features in most IDEs have been a huge win to productivity along with Google search. I think chat AI could be an order of magnitude improvement.

Re: OpenAI and Microsoft extend partnership

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post #14
post #8

> In pursuit of our mission to ensure advanced AI benefits all of humanity, OpenAI remains a capped-profit company and is governed by the OpenAI non-profit. This structure allows us to raise the capital we need to fulfill our mission without sacrificing our core beliefs about broadly sharing benefits and the need to prioritize safety. All this time, I was entirely unaware of this.

The cap is 100x, so assuming Microsoft is investing billions in a current valuation of $29 billion as rumoured, the cap will only really come into place once OpenAI becomes the most valuable company in the world.

so pretty much another marketing stunt / scam

Re: OpenAI and Microsoft extend partnership

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post #14
post #8

> In pursuit of our mission to ensure advanced AI benefits all of humanity, OpenAI remains a capped-profit company and is governed by the OpenAI non-profit. This structure allows us to raise the capital we need to fulfill our mission without sacrificing our core beliefs about broadly sharing benefits and the need to prioritize safety. All this time, I was entirely unaware of this.

The cap is 100x, so assuming Microsoft is investing billions in a current valuation of $29 billion as rumoured, the cap will only really come into place once OpenAI becomes the most valuable company in the world.

It must have been in the first round [1], but leaves open the question of whether this is still the case:

> Returns for our first round of investors are capped at 100x their investment (commensurate with the risks in front of us), and we expect this multiple to be lower for future rounds as we make further progress.

[1] https://openai.com/blog/openai-lp/

Re: OpenAI and Microsoft extend partnership

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'Extend'

Even capitalized and straight from the horses mouth, but as unsurprisingly predicted in: [0]

> * OpenAI will gain further investment...

We already know about ChatGPT Pro since that is a paid version of ChatGPT coming soon, meaning that the second prediction in [0] as also turned out to be true:

> ...ChatGPT by then will become a paid service

Now we wait until the startups depending on the service start to raise their prices.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34201706

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