Artificial Intelligence has become an important attraction for Microsoft users, with Windows Copilot being one of the tools that has aroused the most interest among users, although it is not yet available in Europe.
However, it is not the only field where Microsoft is investing its efforts in AI, since Copilot will also be available through the suite of applications that are part of Office, in the form of a standalone subscription. But we can also find it on GitHub Copilot, the AI ​​available under subscription designed to generate code from scratch.
This is one of Microsoft’s oldest AI implementations and one that, according to The Wall Street Journal, is not having the success that the company expected since it is costing more money per user than it is earning for each subscription. GitHub Copilot has a monthly price of $10 per month, a subscription that is free for users who are part of a consolidated open source project and for students from verified centers.
GitHub Copilot in danger
The Wall Street Journal states that, after the investment that Microsoft has had to make buying graphics from NVIDIA, the cost for the company of each subscription is 20 dollars per month, even reaching up to 80 dollars in some cases, costs that, If they are maintained, they could ruin this interesting function.
According to the sources that have informed this newspaper about the costs of GitHub Copilot for Microsoft, the company founded by Bill Gates is looking for more economical ways to continue offering its AI services, with the in-house manufacturing of graphics cards being one of the solutions. which is on the table. In this way, the purchase of cards from NVIDIA will be reduced.
Other rumors suggest that, by November, Microsoft will announce its first Artificial Intelligence chip at the Ignite conference, an annual company conference focused on developers and IT professionals. If this is finally the case, it is likely that, by reducing dependence on NVIDIA, the price of the subscription to both GitHub Copilot and Microsoft 365 will reduce its price and be more accessible to all types of users.
GitHub Copilot is not the only AI that allows you to generate programming code, however, it is the most popular and well-known. Amazon, through Code Whispered and Google with Google ML, also offer solutions when it comes to programming using AI. However, we do not have any news about the economic profitability of both, but most likely they have the same problem as Microsoft.
Chat GPT, Bing Chat and Bard, to name the most used and well-known bots, are capable of creating programming code in a large number of programming languages, this being probably one of the reasons why GitHub Copilot is not having the success that the Redmond-based company expected, although this is much more complete and precise than the information that these chatbots can present.
