Spoiler: not really envy, just the realization that they were too gormless to ever be competitive if they limited themselves to in-house resources.
this post was submitted on 02 May 2024
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I bet greed had much more impact than envy. Capitalims is, in a nutshell, gluttony applied to everything it can touch, and companies lust to make ever greater amounts of money or face the wrath of their shareholders. Innovation is hard, so copying your proud rivais is the easiest way (sloth, anyone?) to accomplish that...
Well, if they wouldn't, then someone else still would. Apple? Amazon? Yahoo?
We don't know. Maybe someone else would, maybe not. Before Chatgpt 3.5, ai was just a buzzword. It's a bigger buzzword now, but at least tech firms have large-language models that they can market.
Heavily investing in Openai was 1 of Nadella's best decisions.