
Nick Pentreath
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Nick Pentreath
@MLnick
ML Engineer @tumblr. Apache Spark PMC. Author Machine Learning with Spark (https://t.co/FYXT0gHqUQ). Formerly Principal Engineer @codait_org, cofounder Graphflow.










Microsoft essentially acquired the best parts of OpenAI for $0 - 2 of the original founders (Sam & Greg), now unshackled & probably with a lot more skin in the game. - A significant amount of OpenAI staff will follow Sam & Greg to the new org, some of the best people in the world. - Access to OpenAI’s existing IP due to current agreement, making it easy for this org to instantly catch up to OpenAI. - The only people left at OpenAI are decel safetyists, whom msft don’t want anyways. Sam & Greg will basically get a blank check to shoot for the moon. Microsoft is already planning >$50B of infra spend over the next few years. Somehow, Satya managed to extract an outcome that actually leaves Microsoft in a BETTER position vs last week. I’m more bullish on Microsoft than ever. What a legendary run.


















