this is almost a NSFW? some choice snippets:
more than 1.5 million people have used it and it is helping build nearly half of Copilot users’ code
Individuals pay $10 a month for the AI assistant. In the first few months of this year, the company was losing on average more than $20 a month per user, according to a person familiar with the figures, who said some users were costing the company as much as $80 a month.
good thing it’s so good that everyone will use it amirite
starting around $13 for the basic Microsoft 365 office-software suite for business customers—the company will charge an additional $30 a month for the AI-infused version.
Google, …, will also be charging $30 a month on top of the regular subscription fee, which starts at $6 a month
I wonder how long they’ll try that, until they try forcing it on everyone (and raise all prices by some n%)
Silicon Valley’s grá for AI is ideological, so they’ll keep pushing it even though it won’t make money. It’s like capitalist Lysenkoism.
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