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SilasX • today at 8:49 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

>Oracle does not have any proprietary IP that OpenAI depends on. That means Oracle is providing commodity services to OpenAI.

Huh? Is Oracle's plan with this funding to provide compute services for the big AI specialist companies? I assumed it was a buildout for their own AI services, as you're right, the former wouldn't make sense. (At risk of making a trollish, low-effort comment, OpenAI/Anthropic are savvy compute users and would have to be insane to risk getting entangled with Oracle.)

I read the article and I couldn't tell from it which of these is the case.


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flowerlad • today at 9:22 PM

> their own AI services

Oracle doesn't have any. And that's wise. Oracle makes good RDBMS servers. They suck at everything else.

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