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📣 MrThoughtful

What are the terms of the $10B Microsoft / OpenAI deal?


I have not found any good description of the deal yet. Are the terms public?


  👤 m348e912 Accepted Answer ✓
Lots of Azure credits

Here's a little insight:

https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/23/microsoft-invests-billions...


👤 arthurcolle
My mother asked me a few days ago how to invest in ChatGPT. I explained that it's probably the easiest expressed with some long dated ITM calls on MSFT

Anyone know if MSFT actually has equity in OpenAI or if its just a "mutual partnership" ?


👤 ftxbro
From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35367194

"I mean the conspiracy argument would be that the $10B isn't a normal investment. It's a special government project investment facilitated by OpenAI board member and former clandestine CIA operative and cybersecurity executive Will Hurd through his role on the board of trustees of In-Q-Tel the investment arm of the CIA. It's funneled through Microsoft instead of through Google in part because of Google's No-Military-AI pledge in 2018 demanded by its employees, after which Microsoft took over its military contracts including project Maven. The new special government project, the Sydney project, is the most urgent and ambitious since the project to develop nuclear weapons in the mid twentieth century.

Of course I don't necessarily believe any of that but it can be fun to think about."


👤 ftxbro
One interesting thing is that my homie https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ta08131942 made a throwaway account ten days ago, like 'throwaway 08/13/1942' which is the start date of the manhattan project and then he put only a single detailed comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35366484 relating OpenAI to the government/intelligence/military