How much is your business prepared to pay to use generative algorithms?
Microsoft has announced how much users will have to pay for Copilot, the generative algorithm now included in Office that it announced with a video a few months ago showing how to create texts, presentations, spreadsheet formulas, etc using machine learning assistants. But the $30 the company has added to the price of the Office license has angered many.
Thirty dollars per user per month is a major investment for many companies, meaning many will not make them available to all their workers. So why has Microsoft, a company that tends to think in the long term and in the advantages of mass adoption of its tools, set such a high price?
The answer is very simple, but for many, surprising. When OpenAi launched Dall-E in January 2021 and ChatGPT at the end of November 2022, they were free. ChatGPT soon set a record for the number of unique users it immediately attracted. Being able to have a conversation with a massive language model was obviously very attractive, and made headlines around the world.
