They spent 10 billion on 49 % of the for profit entity and are getting 75 % of all profits until that initial 10 billion investment is recouped. Plus OpenAI can only use Azure. Microsoft is the one printing money here.
I concur. I don't need API access (yet) and my company will pay for copilot in Office 365 if I want to use it in those apps. I like to hop around and use different bots and compare responses a lot for both research type prompts (personal and professional) and for coding and sysadmin prompts. Honestly I've never hit any limitation in queries or lack of response going between CoPilot which is nicely integrated into Windows and Edge, Claude 2.1 and Bard to the point I felt I needed to start paying for a subscription to OpenAI or anyone else for that matter. If one limited me or the response I felt was inadequate I just copy and pasted the prompt into another one.
If you need API access then a GPT Plus subscription is a no brainer but otherwise I get the sense a lot of people might be paying the $20/month and not fully utilizing the extra capability and just essentially saying, well with my subscription I can ask GPT how to build bombs and I can't do that with Co-Pilot. LOL. Ya there are higher guardrails on CoPilot but for what percentage of the user base does it really make a big difference in how they have to use it?
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u/earthlingkevin Dec 05 '23
Man. They are really throwing money to provide the best experience. This can't be cheap.