• BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    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 trendy AI pivot for no reason. They trying to dig gold while business is in selling shovels

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      12 days ago

      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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      12 days ago

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