OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on stage at OpenAI Dev Day in San Francisco in November. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop)
Microsoft’s new $20/month AI chatbot subscription, Copilot Pro, promises to give individual users priority access to the latest AI models, starting with OpenAI’s GPT-4 Turbo, along with AI integrations in Microsoft’s productivity suite that were previously reserved for business users.
The pricing is the same as OpenAI’s existing ChatGPT Plus subscription, with similar capabilities. This could cause some users to choose between the two services, illustrating the potential for the partners to compete over the long run.
But for now, there’s enough greenfield opportunity in AI that the two companies seem content to claim their own turf. Microsoft has invested billions of dollars in OpenAI and used its technology to significantly advance its own products.
