Apples billions are in cash
replyOpenAIs billions are in IOUs to Nvidia
Do you think there are any lawyers which take Azure credit as payment?
replyIPO has entered the chat.
replyToo late.
replyMichael Burry intensifies
replyOpenAI has concepts of money.
replyOpenAI investors have concepts of money. OpenAI has their money.
replyI'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.
reply2026 Wimpy would be an effective serial entrepreneur.
replyOnly one has Actual Money™ and quite a lot of it.
replyLawyers: rubbing hands together
replyYeah it reminds me of tha Pink Floyd lyric “..we’re so happy we can hardly count!”.
replyCan you pay for lawyers with RAM, GPUs or IOUs for tokens?
replyImagine comparing what apple has access to vs a deeply money losing firm
replyMore importantly Apple can effectively bring up the shadow of this lawsuit whenever OpenAi tries to acquire money.
replyThey can make legal fillings and calls to Bloomberg to keep the story going as long as they want to and suck some oxygen out of any IPO ramp up.
The “nuclear bomb vs coughing baby” meme comes to mind.
replyI would guess these days Apple probably has more lawyers than engineers.
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