Additionally, “Copilot GPTs” are being introduced for particular jobs.
Microsoft is making an announcement regarding its next significant artificial intelligence efforts, which comes almost a year after the company introduced its ChatGPT-powered Bing Chat, which is now simply referred to as Copilot. Copilot Pro, a monthly membership that costs twenty dollars and provides power users with access to the most recent ChatGPT updates, as well as access to Copilot in Microsoft 365 applications and other new features, is the first product that the company is releasing. As an additional point of interest, the Copilot apps for iOS and Android have been made accessible to the general public after a limited rollout this past month.
Moreover, that is not all! Additionally, Microsoft has launched a new tool called Copilot GPT. This feature will allow you to customize Copilot in relation to certain subjects such as “fitness, travel, cooking, and more,” as stated by Yusuf Mehdi, the executive vice president of Microsoft and the head of Windows. The ability to design one’s own Copilot GPTs will ultimately be available to customers of the Copilot Pro software. (And sure, the name is certainly strange, but it seems that this is Microsoft’s version of the standalone GPTs that OpenAI has developed.)
The company Microsoft has announced that users of the Copilot Pro service will have access to the GPT-4 Turbo during peak periods beginning today. In the future, users will be able to switch between multiple GPT models. Additionally, the membership provides you with improved artificial intelligence image creation, which will be more efficient and produce higher image quality, with landscape formatting as an optional feature. It is also important to note that the monthly cost of Copilot Pro is twenty dollars per user; you should prepare to pay more if you have numerous persons in your family that require access.
In spite of the fact that Copilot and Microsoft’s barrage of artificial intelligence announcements throughout the year 2023 resulted in a great deal of exposure — it even made us care about poor old Bing again! — it is still unclear whether or not it will ultimately wind up being useful to average users. It is possible that this is the reason for the haste with which Copilot for power users was monetized. Microsoft is in need of a method to really reclaim some of the costs that are incurred by its most aggressive customers because Copilot queries are costly, both in terms of the amount of processing power and the amount of energy that is used. As a result of the business’s $13 billion investment in OpenAI, which provided it with a 49 percent ownership in the artificial intelligence company (and once again sparked regulatory scrutiny), the company is also required to fulfill its obligations.
It is not surprising that Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella played a significant role in re-establishing OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman as CEO after a dramatic battle with the company’s board of directors. Given the tight connection between the two companies, it is not surprising that such a battle occurred.
Additionally, Microsoft has announced that the “Business Premium” and “Business Standard” subscriptions for Copilot for Microsoft 365 are now generally available to small businesses. This is in addition to the availability of Copilot Pro. You can now purchase anywhere from one to two hundred and ninety-nine seats, but the price has not changed since the initial launch of the enterprise version. It is still thirty dollars per month for each individual.