Brian Barrett

They don't want to be involved in the mess.

No, I feel like Microsoft has been, you know, Microsoft obviously very close relationship with OpenAI, although they, as of this week, they have a more open relationship where OpenAI can now use other people's clouds.

Very Berkeley.

So I think Microsoft just wants to be as far away from all of this as it possibly can.

You know, the fact that Saatchi is going to have to testify is something that they can't avoid.

But I think this is just something, you know, Microsoft increasingly is placing its own bets in AI.

It's increasingly sort of separating, not totally separating, but like their relationship is not quite so intertwined with open AI.

And I think rightly so, right?

I think it's clear, especially given, as we said, how much

restructuring how much turnaround, how much mess, again, I keep using that word that OpenAI has gone through.

You maybe don't want to put all of your eggs in that basket.

So I don't know.

I think we're going to see Microsoft continuing to try to place as much distance as they can from this as possible while still retaining as much financial upside as they can.

Yeah, it's a chance to kneecap a major competitor, right?

That seems to be it, especially everyone's racing to go public, Anthropic, SpaceX, which owns XAI, OpenAI.

And so if one of those leaders in this race has to give up a bunch of money, lose its CEO, and become a nonprofit all of a sudden, that makes SpaceX's prospects look a whole lot better.

Set aside, like, the legal merits, like, who knows?

We've got on the jury, we've got a psychiatrist, we've got a painter, we've got a former Lockheed Martin employee.

And that's the beauty of the American justice system.

But, you know, who knows what this group of people is going to decide this on or why?