Microsoft's FOMO after seeing Google AI drove investment in OpenAI

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Historical email in antitrust case shows execs 'very, very worried' about capability gaps

A fascinating insight into Microsoft's inner workings has been thrown up in some redacted document dumps related to the ongoing Google antitrust trial.

Hard though it may be to believe nowadays, in 2019 AI was not the only thing Microsoft was talking about. Sure, the tech was lurking behind the scenes, but compared to the wall-to-wall coverage of recent years, AI was just another thing the company was working on.made available as part of the ongoing legal process, Scott admitted he had been initially dismissive of the efforts of OpenAI and Google.

"And as I dug in to try to understand where all of the capability gaps were between Google and us for model training, I got very, very worried."

 

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