[HN Gopher] OpenAI and Microsoft tensions are reaching a boiling...
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OpenAI and Microsoft tensions are reaching a boiling point
Author : jmsflknr
Score : 44 points
Date : 2025-06-16 20:12 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| coloneltcb wrote:
| https://archive.ph/4HP14
| rawgabbit wrote:
| Open AI and Microsoft now offer competing tools.
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| Microsoft wants access to all of Open AI's intellectual property;
| this partnership won't end well.
| 1024core wrote:
| Just a few days ago, news came that OpenAI is tapping Google
| Cloud for access to more compute resources:
| https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/openai-taps...
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| IIRC when Microsoft invested in OpenAI, it was supposed to use
| Azure only.
| htrp wrote:
| >The startup, growing frustrated with its partner, has discussed
| making antitrust complaints to regulators
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| Ratting MSFT out to the government doesn't seem like the move of
| someone with a strong hand.
| redwood wrote:
| Imagine if OpenAI weren't locked into Azure's stack.
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| A lot of people seem to think multi-cloud is an unrealistic
| dream. But using best in class primitives that are available in
| each cloud is not an unreasonable thing to do.
| neepi wrote:
| I would very much like our industry to stop behaving like
| absolute fucking morons at this point. Between the infighting,
| the perpetual layoffs, garbage products, privacy risks,
| arrogance, eternal hype cycles, scapegoating and plain lying
| about things I have to ask what good is left?
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| Fuck both of them.
| bionhoward wrote:
| imagine these companies making antitrust complaints against one
| another while both companies have explicitly anticompetitive
| legal terms that mean users can't fine tune ai on data they "own"
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