About this episode
Welcome to episode 322 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! We have BIG NEWS – Jonathan is back! He’s joined in the studio by Justin and Ryan to bring you all the latest in cloud and AI news, including ongoing drama in the Microsoft/OpenAI drama, saying goodbye to data transfer fees (in the EU), M4 Power, and more. Let’s get started!
Titles we almost went with this week
EU Later, Egress Fees: Google’s Brexit from Data Transfer Charges
The Keys to the Cosmos: Azure Unlocks Customer Control
Breaking Up is Hard to Do: Google Splits LLM Inference for Better Performance
OpenAI and Microsoft: From Exclusive to It’s Complicated
Google’s New Model Has Trust Issues (And That’s a Good Thing)
Mac to the Future: AWS Brings M4 Power to the Cloud
Oracle’s Cloud Nine: Stock Soars on Half-Trillion Dollar Dreams
ChatGPT: From Chat Bot to Hat Bot (Everyone’s Wearing Different Professional Hats)
Five Billion Reasons to Love British AI
NVMe Gonna Give You Up: AWS Delivers the Storage Metrics You’ve Been Missing
Tea and AI: OpenAI Crosses the Pond
The Norway Bug Strikes Back: A New YAML Hope
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AI Is Going Great – Or How ML Makes Money
01:33 Microsoft and OpenAI make a deal: Reading between the lines of their secretive new agreement – GeekWire
Microsoft and OpenAI have signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding that will restructure their partnership, with OpenAI’s nonprofit entity receiving an equity stake exceeding $100 billion in a new public benefit corporation where Microsoft will play a major role.
The deal addresses the AGI clause that previously allowed OpenAI to unilaterally dissolve the partnership upon achieving