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The sane course of action for any healthy organization after last week would be to work actively on becoming more independent from Microsoft.

With Sam at the head, especially after Microsoft backing him, they will most likely do the opposite. Meaning a deeper integration with Microsoft.

If it wasn't already, OpenAI is now basically a Microsoft subsidiary. With the advantage for Microsoft of not being legally liable for any court cases.

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Before the current drama:

>Microsoft owned 49% of the for-profit part of OpenAI.

>OpenAI's training, inference, and all other infrastructure were running entirely on Azure credits.

>Microsoft/Azure were the only ones offering OpenAI's models/APIs with a business-friendly SLA, uptime/stability, and the option to host them in Azure data centers outside the US.

OpenAI is already Microsoft.

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