Microsoft closes at record after revealing pricing for new A.I. subscription - Spoiler: $30/month

Microsoft closes at record after revealing pricing for new A.I. subscription​

PUBLISHED TUE, JUL 18 20234:04 PM EDTUPDATED TUE, JUL 18 20234:43 PM EDT

KEY POINTS

• Microsoft shares rallied to an all-time high after the company announced pricing for its new AI subscription service.
• Microsoft’s Copilot subscription service adds AI to the company’s popular Office products such as Word, Excel and Teams.
• It will cost an additional $30 per month and could increase monthly prices for enterprise customers as much as 83%, bringing in additional revenue through recurring subscriptions.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at the company’s Ignite Spotlight event in Seoul, Nov. 15, 2022.
SeongJoon Cho | Bloomberg | Getty Images

Microsoft shares closed at a record Tuesday after the company announced pricing for its new Microsoft 365 artificial intelligence subscription service.
The stock jumped 4%, closing at $359.49. It’s now up about 50% for the year. The prior record came on June 15, when the stock closed at $348.10.

Microsoft’s Copilot subscription service adds AI to the company’s popular Office products such as Word, Excel and Teams. It will cost an additional $30 per month and could increase monthly prices for enterprise customers as much as 83%, bringing in additional revenue through recurring subscriptions.
The announcement shows how Microsoft is continuing to build on its suite of Office software, making it more attractive for businesses that are seeking to add AI into their workflows. Microsoft has been pouring money into generative AI, largely through a multibillion-dollar investment in OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT.
Microsoft Copilot, first announced in March, can design presentations, offer writing prompts, summarize meetings and rank incoming emails. It’s already being tested by 600 customers such as Goodyear and General Motors, although Microsoft hasn’t said when it will be available to the wider public.
— CNBC’s Hayden Field contributed to this report.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/18/microsoft-stock-hits-all-time-high-on-new-copilot-ai-subscription.html

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...this may just be business pricing, with a reduced cost for home use. it's still cheaper then hiring a secretary, or could let our office lady with the big tits pass as a secretary,

 

[DavidS877]

What's the timeline for the first lawsuit when an employee uses the AI to write a document and fucks it up in a way that costs their employer serious money.

 

[Night Crawler]

I have a feeling all this AI stuff is going to end up just like 3D TV's tablets smart watches and VR. It will kick around for a while but will be dead soon.

 

[Breadbassket]

I have a feeling all this AI stuff is going to end up just like 3D TV's tablets smart watches and VR. It will kick around for a while but will be dead soon.

There is definitely money to be made with it but at the same time there is only so much room in the market for dominant players. Time will tell if ChatGPT somehow manages to destroy everyone else.

 

[Socrates]

I have a feeling all this AI stuff is going to end up just like 3D TV's tablets smart watches and VR. It will kick around for a while but will be dead soon.

What we're watching is the latest tech wonder scam to keep the remaining VC money that hasn't been schlorped away by rising interest rates flowing. The pile is getting smaller and smaller and the hogs are still hungry.

 

[Betonhaus]

There is definitely money to be made with it but at the same time there is only so much room in the market for dominant players. Time will tell if ChatGPT somehow manages to destroy everyone else.

ChatGPT is a seek-out service, not an opt-in. Microsoft already intergrates Bing AI into the browser and it's in Windows 11 task bar, and Copilot wiill be a click away in Office. ChatGPT you have to go to it's own sit and look up what it intergrates with

 

[Cool Dog Returns]

There is definitely money to be made with it but at the same time there is only so much room in the market for dominant players. Time will tell if ChatGPT somehow manages to destroy everyone else.

I think at the end shit like LLaMA will win because you can run it in your own hardware

Some companies are already dealing with retarded employees putting confidential info in chatgpt

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

Pay $30 per month to be scolded by woke AI for wrongthink.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

paperclip helper used to be free.

Can someone ask the AI to create an OS that competes with Microsoft? It's mental that there isn't a serious competitor to Windows, 40 years after its' creation. Imagine if Ford was the only car manufacturer in town.

 

[Vesperus]

I'd pay $30 to bring Tay back. Bastards.

 

[Betonhaus]

paperclip helper used to be free.

Can someone ask the AI to create an OS that competes with Microsoft? It's mental that there isn't a serious competitor to Windows, 40 years after its' creation. Imagine if Ford was the only car manufacturer in town.

macOS, Linux, Android, iOS...
There's plenty of competitors, they just aren't as convenient.

 

[The Punished Mitch]

2.7T market cap? That's some wild shit

 

[DamnWolves!]

I have a feeling all this AI stuff is going to end up just like 3D TV's tablets smart watches and VR. It will kick around for a while but will be dead soon.

My CEO asked every exec to "come up with a strategy to incorporate AI into our departments & products", to drive "efficiencies and innovations".

I was recently going through some old docs from 2018 from a coworker who was fired and I noticed some drafts for a similar exercise on "how we can incorporate blockchain technology into our offering".

Just goes to show you that companies are just collections of people. Very often stupid people.

 

[derpherp2]

What we're watching is the latest tech wonder scam to keep the remaining VC money that hasn't been schlorped away by rising interest rates flowing. The pile is getting smaller and smaller and the hogs are still hungry.

The fact they unveiled "how to train your bot 2.0" immediately after SVB shits itself is very telling.

The fact they named it "AI" even though it isn't is also telling.
There's also the jargon of "teaching" it shit when it can't even learn how not to brute force things until you tell it not to do so. Like some spiteful angry toddler.

It's an attempt to sensationalize something that isn't really a thing in the techbro sector for money. Like the dumbass security robots that look like traffic cones. Or the dumbass automated delivery system.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

macOS, Linux, Android, iOS...
There's plenty of competitors, they just aren't as convenient.

Android and iOS? for realz? Two systems you use on tablets and phones? I'm talking proper competitor.

Excel, Word, Powerpoint is all I need for business. Chuck some snipping tool in there and let me play a full library of vidya games coded straight to the metal with none of this data scraping, marketing spyware shit.

 

[Night Crawler]

There is definitely money to be made with it but at the same time there is only so much room in the market for dominant players. Time will tell if ChatGPT somehow manages to destroy everyone else.

People bought 3D capable TV's smart watches and VR headsets. That doesn't mean they are super popular. 3D TV's are basically dead. Last time I was in a Walmart years ago the employees were joking about it. Of course, they were white males. Probably in their early to mid 20's. I don't think they even sell them. When I bought the JP Blu-Ray collection off ebay years ago it came with a copy of the first movie in 3D for use with a 3D TV. You can't even find them anymore. It wasn't that long ago. Just a little shy of a decade.

What we're watching is the latest tech wonder scam to keep the remaining VC money that hasn't been schlorped away by rising interest rates flowing. The pile is getting smaller and smaller and the hogs are still hungry.

It is funny watching certain faggots in the upper classes worry about losing their jobs to AI.

My CEO asked every exec to "come up with a strategy to incorporate AI into our departments & products", to drive "efficiencies and innovations".

I was recently going through some old docs from 2018 from a coworker who was fired and I noticed some drafts for a similar exercise on "how we can incorporate blockchain technology into our offering".

Just goes to show you that companies are just collections of people. Very often stupid people.

Companies waste money all the time. There was a video about certain companies wasting money on tech related gimmicks like Meta and shit like that.

 

[XANA]

Microsoft’s Copilot subscription service adds AI to the company’s popular Office products such as Word, Excel and Teams.

So basically, it's like Clippy, but worse.

Microsoft has been pouring money into generative AI, largely through a multibillion-dollar investment in OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT.

The thing is that ChatGPT is considerably getting worse thanks to something I'll dub "Tay's Law". AI will always be lobotomized in quick succession as soon as it starts spitting out politically incorrect results. Because the neural networking relies on many points of data being cross-referenced (even to other arbitrary and non-tangentially related points), severing them or removing branches will always end up affecting the AI wholesale to the point where it becomes more "A" than "I".

I read a study yesterday where ChatGPT4 performed worse than ChatGPT3.5 on things such as determining if a random number is prime. You can't really query more specialized topics anymore without getting hit by the "As an AI language model..." canned response.

 

[Justa Grata Honoria]

Neh another scam i am waiting for few months in the stories to come out how much it sucks and how companies lost money. Since most models, and algorithms work with inputs you get garbage in and garbage out . I just hope with this they finally can use it as an excuse to cut most of the laptop caste off and tell them to learn how to weld lol

 

[Betonhaus]

Neh another scam i am waiting for few months in the stories to come out how much it sucks and how companies lost money. Since most models, and algorithms work with inputs you get garbage in and garbage out . I just hope with this they finally can use it as an excuse to cut most of the laptop caste off and tell them to learn how to weld lol

I feel like this will usher in a cultural revolution. Only people skilled at their trade will get jobs in writing, as the incompetent drifters can be replaced by AI for cheap.

In the future i expect we will have far less people working in the technology or media industry, and who's left will learn to live off of the land like god intended.

 

[Flamin Park]

"AI" is the new "dynamic"

It's a stupid buzzword that appeals to morons
Pay $30 a month to get clippy plus ultra. I love how it never actually says what this AI does, always the hallmark of complete and utter grift