Microsoft

The primary financial backer of OpenAI that invested billions after the release of ChatGPT.

“I mean, it's funny, he actually does continue to pay rent on their offices [laughs] for a few more months, which is nice of him, I guess. But Sam and Greg start talking to Microsoft, the king of software from forever. They've been doing a bunch of AI spending …”

The company behind the Xbox brand that is undergoing a rebranding of its gaming division.

“And we're back. Story number three. After a fan poll, Microsoft's new games boss is rebranding Xbox to Xbox. That's Xbox, uh, with a capital X and lowercase B-O-X, to Xbox, all capitalized letters. This is from Andy Robinson at Video Games Chronicle. Microsoft…”

Mentioned as a company that was founded in the same month as Vanguard.

“Oh. Uh, Microsoft.”

The company where Ben Gilbert held his first job and established his initial 401(k) with Fidelity.

“Which is why I am a Fidelity customer. They got me when I started my first job at Microsoft, and I got my 401 [k] there, and my employee stock plan also came through there, so then I opened my first Fidelity brokerage account, and that is how they've retained …”

Accused of demanding urgent support from open-source volunteers without providing adequate funding or maintenance contracts.

“"The XZ fiasco has shown how a dependence on unpaid volunteers can cause major problems. Trillion-dollar corporations expect free and urgent support from volunteers. Microsoft, Microsoft Teams posted on a bug tracker full of volunteers that their issue is high…”

Criticized for poor communication with smaller software projects like VLC regarding store distribution issues.

“And on VideoLAN it's the same, right? Like for example, a, a very simple example, for more than a year we couldn't update VLC on Android because of a bug on the Play Store, on Android Play Store, right? The only way we got someone to answer was to put an very …”

Mentioned as a large company that relies heavily on Linux for its cloud infrastructure, Azure.

“He's very harsh, but what people don't see is usually when he's harsh to, it's people who are maintainer of part of the kernel, right? So they know him, right? So he's not very harsh like that to everyone. The thing is, what he created in his room is basically…”

Compared to the VLC team, Microsoft is noted as having infinite resources yet supporting fewer operating systems.

“For me, like some of the headaches we have is around some OS that are difficult to support, right? Because, um, uh, if you look at VLC and thanks to FATE and FFmpeg, we run on... The last version of VLC runs on Windows XP and still run there and runs on Window…”

Mentioned for their work on the Phi model and quantization techniques.

“Because you can get more power per dollar invested, right? And sometimes it's going to be a problem that is limited by your hardware. A, a, a good analogy is what you see in quanti- quantization in, in LLMs, right? And people are doing, "Oh, I'm going to do th…”

The company created the AVI video format.

“Um, and, um, so containers are this collection of multiple tracks, right? So it's a, what normal people call the file format, but it's a bit more, um, um, subtle than that. But the most known one, of course, is MP4, but, uh, when I started, it was AVI, right? …”

The company's CEO Satya Nadella testified regarding the nature of the relationship between Microsoft and OpenAI.

“I texted with them all during this time. The Microsoft's Satya, uh, Nadella was testifying. Elon's lawyers were questioning, uh, Nadella about the nature of Microsoft's relationship with OpenAI and pointed to comments he made during an interview with me after …”

The company that acquired Nat Friedman's startup and GitHub.

“I don't know what his story was. He did a startup that was acquired by Microsoft. Then when Microsoft bought GitHub for like whatever billions and billions of dollars, he became the CEO of GitHub.”

The company whose DirectX API became the industry standard, rendering NVIDIA's early architecture incompatible.

“And, uh, Microsoft is about to announce Windows 95 and Windows 95 has a API called DirectX, and DirectX does it the right way.”