you act like everyone; apple, amazon, google, facebook, elon musks companies is not spending billions on trying to get what openAI has. If microsoft bitch their way out of the partnership by pushing to hard for sam altman(if they want him so badly, its because hes in their pocket), the others will relize they can take microsofts place, and all they have to do is recive the usage of the by far best AI in the marked, and not try to take over the company. Especially google wants this. if anything just to prevent microsoft from improving bing. but also while gpt4 is the best attempt MS has had and will have at taking over search, gpt4 or whats next could be googles best attempt to take over with their google docs ecosystem. its allready nowhere near as far behind ms-office as bing is google search.
that would be worth 100s of billions to google medium-long term. Facebook could abuse our data even more, and maby make augmented reality acutally usefull if they had a partnership with openAI. Amazon may have less internal uses that i can think of, but they would love to host the API and get a small cut, that becomes a lot of money when its spread over so much use. atleast amazon would be willing to SELL compute the openAI, anyone would. And lastly apple is realy looking to run local AI on their devices. Im sure they would pay billions and billions to openai, in exchange for a (gpt.35 turbo)turbo. Supposedly gpt 3.5 turbo is not that large, so if they downscale it a bit more, they may be able to get it running on apple hardware, and if they downscale it enougth, it wont be usefull for people to reverse for server use. And im sure if anyone could run a local model that was hard to reverse, it would be apple.
Yeah sure, individualy these companies are a lot larger than OpenAi, and completely overpower them. But they are all competing for the same very valuable thing that openAi has acces to. They can bluff and say they dont want it, but openAi dosent even need to take any risk when calling the bluff. they may just pick anyone else.
Change my mind: There was no coup. They just staged this, so it can seem like microsoft just saved a broken company, instead of looking like microsoft bribed their way to effectivly buy a nonprofit. Question is if the rest of the openai board is paid for in money, or was threatened to comply. I imagine you can kill quite a lot of someones family, with no evidence leading back to you for that kinda budget.