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What is clear here is what's been clear since the relationship between Open AI and Microsoft was announced, and even before then. In an ecosystem where only a handful of the largest tech companies have access to the extraordinarily expensive "hyperscale" compute capacity required to develop and use large-scale AI systems, any startup looking to “succeed” in the AI space will, at some point, be required to latch on to one of these large firms. What we’re watching is that fact revealed clearly. It's Microsoft--the infrastructure and deployment provider--who actually has the power here. The fact that the Open AI board didn't seem to realize this is surprising, but doesn't distract from this basic political economic fact.