OpenAI might be a partner, but it's also a competitor, says Microsoft

OpenAI – the recipient of billions of Microsoft's dollars in exchange for access to the super-lab's generative AI technology – has been listed as a competitor in the Windows maker's latest annual report. The Azure titan's annual filing for its recently concluded fiscal 2024 showed up on the SEC's website in the wake of Q4 …

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MS may have reason to be nervous.

Just as users put their livelihoods on the chopping block storing their data on other peoples' clouds and subscribing to web-based software, the features of which, or their access to, can be pulled at the drop of a hat, MS is placing itself at the mercy of a third party with OpenAI. It may have been wiser to configure AI better as something that could be turned on or off by users, and could use multiple vendors' processing. But they didn't. And they may no longer be able to roll back.

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Me: Hi Copilot, can you please correct all issues I have with Windows, Office, Teams and Onedrive ?

Copilot: Sure! I thought you would never ask....

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Nah, if there was any 'I' in AI it would say:-

Copilot: Sure! Have you tried Linux?

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"Our Search and news advertising business competes with Google, OpenAI, and a wide array of websites, social platforms like Meta, and portals that provide content and online offerings to end users."

Micros~1 has a search and news advertising business? To shamelessly steal from quote Spike Milligan, it seems to have left an indelible blank on my mind.