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Microsoft will have to buy OpenAI in 2023

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Re: Microsoft will have to buy OpenAI in 2023

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Hand wave all you like. If Microsoft is putting money into a 3rd party company for their AI (and, they are. right now ) …that is fundamentally not sustainable as the “total value” of the relationship increases. Either a) Microsoft will in-house their own version and drop openAI, or b) they’ll buy them. Any other conclusion that anyone draws about Microsoft’s commercial relationships is delusional. The only point in c…

Another consideration here is whether or not OpenAI specifically is inherently special relative to other systems. ChatGPT is popular , because most of the world has looked at it (myself included) and thought “wow”, but I don’t know what Google, Microsoft or anyone else has running in their labs. Google’s LAMDA demo some time back was incredibly impressive, but it’s not led to anything publicly released yet, so compar…

This aged like milk.

Re: Microsoft will have to buy OpenAI in 2023

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> And unlike Snapchat, it's going to be very hard for incumbents to clone We forgetting how Dall-E 2 was made irrelevant just a few weeks after release by Stable Diffusion? I agree with everything else you're saying though, I don't think he'd have any interest in selling it.

DALL-E 2 was a LOT better than Stable Diffusion. Sure it was open source but it was clearly a generation behind. Great if you didn't mind your inputs looking like last year's AI output.

Disagree completely. If you know what you're doing SD is at least comparable if not aesthetically superior to Dall-E.
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