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Before LLMs there were all manner of systems “trained on data” back through “expert systems” of the 1990s and beyond.
Having direct access to all the code definitely gave Microsoft business data about which languages were being used, and how, most popularly, and by who.
And you think MS dropped $7.5B to get the data stackoverflow publishes every year for free?
Of course owning data from the most popular development platform was useful to them but they didn’t buy to get data to train “expert system” or LLMs. They wanted to have direct contact with huge numbers of developers so they can sell them their products.
*“training data”.
Before LLMs there were all manner of systems “trained on data” back through “expert systems” of the 1990s and beyond.
Having direct access to all the code definitely gave Microsoft business data about which languages were being used, and how, most popularly, and by who.
And you think MS dropped $7.5B to get the data stackoverflow publishes every year for free?
Of course owning data from the most popular development platform was useful to them but they didn’t buy to get data to train “expert system” or LLMs. They wanted to have direct contact with huge numbers of developers so they can sell them their products.