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Microsoft hires ex-OpenAI leaders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman to lead new AI team | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

submitted 10 months ago by pegaux@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 5 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Having two entrants is still better than one.

[–] silencioso@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Not really if you have to divide resources between two. Computing necessary for training these models is not cheap and there is an obvious opportunity cost here.

[–] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

MS has more than enough cash and resources to back two horses.

Computing necessary for training this models is not cheap and there is an obvious opportunity cost here.

This also gives them the luxury of trying a different approach.

[–] silencioso@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Time will tell my guess is that Microsoft will sale its stake in openai or just drain openai from resources and people until it will disappear.

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