Comment by DebtDeflation
2 years ago
They don't even need all 700+ or even 500 or even 100 employees to join.
If they can get the 4 technical members of the executive team not counting Ilya - Mira, Woj, Bob, and Peter, plus a few other key people like Karpathy then they have what they need and OpenAI is effectively dead.
Maybe there's a gap between "OpenAI is dead" and "MSFT can build the same"?
They already can build the same given they have access to everything as part of their deal.
But it is not in Microsoft's benefit that OpenAI is dead - they do not have the chops internally to compete yet (my take at least)
I mean, hiring all 700+ of them would certainly mean OAI was dead, what is your point?
It's a great negotiation tactic from MS imo so that OpenAI employees don't budge on their petition knowing MS is backing them
OpenAI may be dead but OpenAI 2 at MS is not guaranteed to live.
Building OpenAI at Microsoft from scratch is a tall order.