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@dgerard So um now we can get on into the sunk cost fallacy phase of “AI”-pre-winter? I mean how much how much VC money have they already burnt to heat up sand at data centers? Does MICROS~1 granting them Azure use count?
Apparently MS gives OpenAI Azure credits, but those are near cost price - so if OpenAI uses them, MS has to spend real money on GPUs and electricity.
MS also has rights to OpenAI’s software. So OpenAI is functionally a Microsoft subsidiary that pretends to be a separate company to insulate MS from blame for the shit OpenAI pulls.
@dgerard Right, that actually is investor money being set on fire to activate sand; and I guess MS own half of the previously existing for-profit OpenAI; mostly this makes me wonder how much more money they can set fire to and how fast
I’m actually shocked at how desperate capitalists are to finding their next hype bubble. Like the fact it is good for statistics is the only whiff of something real they needed to go all in.
Can no one afford steady incremental returns anymore?
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