• BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world
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    Why the fuck are they even in the Ai business in the first place? They were milking the cloud services for years, Xbox and Windows being just side hustles, and now they made trend AI pivot for no reason. They trying to dig gold while business is in selling shovels

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      MSFT’s entire method of operation revolves around acquisition.

      They bought into OpenAI just like they did for all of their major products in hopes that it makes money.

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      Everyone wants to be in the AI business. It’s what was expected to make money. It’s lost so much, I love it.

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      If they had done a Google and sold GPU-compute cloud services, they could probably have made quite a tidy sum. Everyone wants compute.