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They've been doing orders of magnitude better in recent years, I'm never thrilled about aggressive vertical integration but of all the massive corporations Microsoft is pretty high up on my personal list for trust (which yeah is a pretty low bar compared to Amazon/Google/etc)
Did you read about how they’re trying to buy Nintendo and all the meddling they’ve done there?
https://www.axios.com/2023/09/19/leak-microsoft-buy-nintendo-merger
got any other articles? that one doesn't make it out to be all that bad
"Without that catalyst, I don't see an angle to a near term mutually agreeable merger of Nintendo and MS and I don't think a hostile action would be a good move, so we are playing the long game."
doesn't sound like meddling to me, just wanting to mutually merge, and who wouldn't want that as a CEO lol
Yea that wasn’t the best article. I thought it had more of the email in it.
This article has the whole email screenshot: https://www.ign.com/articles/leaked-microsoft-email-reveals-xbox-boss-phil-spencer-really-wants-to-buy-nintendo
I say “until recently” as our former MS BoD member ValueAct has been heavily acquiring shares of Nintendo and I’ve kept in touch with Mason Morfit as he’s been acquiring. It’s likely he will be pushing for more from Nintendo stock which could create opportunity for us.
Ah yes, the usual hostile takeover.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
But seeing as the board has already made its choice, deciding to remain in place and naming a new CEO, while Altman and Brockman head to Microsoft, it seems that Microsoft may have just found Altman’s first several hundred employees, assuming they’re correct about the company’s promise to hire them all.
The letter appears to have been written before the events of last night, suggesting it has been circulating since closer to Altman’s firing.
Microsoft has now created a special “advanced AI research team” to house a number of former OpenAI employees, with Altman offered a CEO title to lead the division.
He will take over from Mira Murati, who was named interim OpenAI CEO following Altman’s shock firing on Friday.
Microsoft’s new advanced AI research team, led by Altman and Brockman, comes just a week after Microsoft announced it has built its own custom AI chip that can be used to train large language models and potentially avoid a costly reliance on Nvidia.
Altman had been reportedly pitching a separate startup to build custom, Nvidia-rivaling AI tensor processing unit (TPU) chips to investors recently, according to The New York Times.
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