Idle 2023 acquisitions predictions:

Midjourney acq by Instagram or Discord

Browser Company acq by OpenAI

Bigscreen VR by Microsoft or Google

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OpenAI would greatly benefit from being one level up in the stack.

An even wilder moonshot would be building a new phone OS

Interesting. OpenAI could indeed become consumer company as defensibility of their tech is not clear just yet.
However, given their technological head start, I'd bet they would focus on long-term partnerships before competition catches up.
I'd love to see it happening though. OpenAI+Arc would be a blast!

The risk is the upstream part of the stack:

On this front, partnership with Microsoft could go well beyond web services.

The risk is the upstream part of the stack:

https://warpcast.com/dwr/0xd4cc25