But better a remedy than a hard stop, from its PoV. There’s no doubt Microsoft would have preferred not to have to give such a concession. CMA’s initial red light to green for game on. competition authorities who sought to block its $68.7 billion gaming megamerger with Activision - circumventing a hard stop on that transaction by proposing to restructure the deal to divest most of Activision’s cloud-streaming rights to a rival (Ubisoft), which flipped the U.K. Just recently it skied past a challenge from U.K. But the company didn’t respond to our questions on the topic.)

(Indeed, there are rumors it’s been taking expert advice from some high profile regulators vis-a-vis its investment in OpenAI. Microsoft is no stranger to having merger controls applied. All the efforts started after 1:30 AM, 500+ within two hours and all of this after 2 crazy days with very little sleep. As people start waking up, more will come. For regulators it sounds more like: ‘Keep calm, there’s nothing to see here’ - or, ‘we’re still an OpenAI “partner” and we’re still working with them we’re definitely not in control of the whole AI shebang honest!’.Ībout 650 / 770 signed at this moment. For investors Nadella’s message is essentially ‘keep calm, we’re carrying on’. The Microsoft CEO’s carefully constructed public lines look intended for both Microsoft investors and any watchful competition regulators. “We look forward to getting to know Emmett Shear and OAI’s new leadership team and working with them,” he went on, tone set to ‘smooth operator’. (Talk about efficient tweeting amid the chaos!). “We remain committed to our partnership with OpenAI and have confidence in our product roadmap,” wrote CEO Satya Nadella in the same post on X where he announced bringing Altman et al into the fold. Or OpenAI risks losing the majority of its human talent, if they make good on an “imminent” threat to flee into Microsoft’s (very open-for-AI) arms (“Microsoft has assured us that there are positions for all OpenAI employees at this new subsidiary should we choose to join,” the OpenAI staffers disclose in their letter.)įor its part Microsoft’s leadership has sought to project ‘business as usual’ messaging during these seismic upheavals at its strategic AI partner. So either OpenAI reboots to reset the current chaos, with Microsoft’s man Altman back in charge (and more powerful than ever).

Which suggests the back-up plan is to recreate OpenAI in-house at Microsoft.Īt the time of writing a mass exodus of OpenAI staff to Microsoft also looks entirely possible - with hundreds of staffers signing a letter saying they “may” quit unless the startup’s board resigns and reappoints Altman and Brockman, along with two new independent directors. The number could have been equal to 6500, but not equal to 7500.As the tech world watches Microsoft suck in top execs and AI engineering talent from OpenAI, the generative AI giant in which it already holds a minority stake worth several billion dollars, one question to consider is what, if anything, can competition regulators do about the visible flight of AI expertise and value into Microsoft’s commercial empire?Įfforts by the OpenAI board to reinstate CEO Sam Altman immediately after ejecting him were reported over the weekend to have failed - with Altman opting to join Microsoft, along with president Greg Brockman and several leading AI engineers, as CEO of a new AI research division it’s spinning up. The number must have been between 65 to round to 7000 to one significant figure. We need to look half way between 60 for the lower bound and half way between 70 for the upper bound. The number below is 6000 and the number above is 8000 (to one significant figure) The number must have been between 4.75 and 4.85 to round to 4.8 to one decimal place.Ĥ.75 would round to 4.8, so we use an or equal symbolĤ.85 would not round to 4.8 we just use the less than symbol.Įxample 2: A number y has been rounded to one significant figure We need to look half way between 4.7 and 4.8 for the lower bound and half way between 4.8 and 4.9 for the upper bound. The number below is 4.7 and the number above is 4.9 (to one decimal place) The number has been rounded to 4.8 to one decimal place. An error interval tells us the range of numbers that we could have had before the number was rounded.Įxample 1: A number x has been rounded to one decimal place When we use error intervals we are looking at a number that has been rounded.

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