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6 months of anyone's time is not worth 3 billion dollars.


That was my thoughts too. No text editor is worth $3B, and probably not even VSCode is. So I think this deal was about buying more customers/users and buying "relevance". OpenAI lost it's monopoly and they're worried they might become irrelevant so they basically just purchased something popular to remain relevant.


it's not just one person though




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