the AI landscape shifting yet again, Microsoft just did another one of these shadow aqua hires this time of inflection AI bizarre deal for background inflection have raised 1.5 billion over the last two years. It was one of these giant fundings that occurred to build a foundational model. This was a bailout of the investors.

I don't think the investors got ripped off here. I think the investors were like thrilled to get their money back for whatever reason. This company wasn't going anywhere. It raised hundreds of millions of dollars. Reed and bill obviously are wired in there on the Microsoft board. And this company did have some talent that Microsoft wanted.

So they basically did a giant aqua hire and a build out