So what did Microsoft win here? They invested 10B into a non-profit that is imploding now and after they will hire most of said company employees. Expensive hires! Not that Microsoft is to blame here. OpenAI's board messed this one up themselves and Microsoft is swooping in for the good stuff. -- Over 500 OpenAI employees threaten to resign and join Microsoft following the hiring of former CEO Sam Altman and co-founder Greg Brockman to lead a new AI research team. Microsoft has created a special "advanced AI research team" to accommodate the former OpenAI employees, with Altman as CEO.