[sparkling]

> Because the fact that Copilot is free and ChatGPT is not should be a red flag...

I'd assume that running a model that only needs to deal with a single programming language (the Copilot plugin knows what kind of code base it is working on) is _a lot_ cheaper than running the "full" ChatGPT 4.

[gjsman-1000]

Sorry for being so precise, but Microsoft renamed Bing Chat to Copilot yesterday, has already rolled it out to all users of Microsoft Edge, and is rolling out a permanent button on the Windows 11 taskbar to access it.

This is what shouldn't add up: Microsoft is literally adding GPT-4, for free, to the Windows 11 taskbar. Can you imagine how much that costs when you look at the GPT-4 API, or ChatGPT's subscription price? Either Microsoft is burning money, or OpenAI agreed to burn money with them. But why would they do that, when that would compromise $20/mo. subscription sales?

Something doesn't financially add up there.

[riversflow]

You got me excited that Github Copilot was free. Was going to post to tell you it is, in fact, not free. I've been using Bing on Edge browser for a while now, it's super useful! Sad that they rebranded it to Copilot though, "I have been a good Bing :)" will be forever in my memory. [1] RIP Bing, you were a good chat mode.

[1] https://simonwillison.net/2023/Feb/15/bing/

[crucialfelix]

Microsoft is pulling browser, search and AI hype mindshare away from Google. That's worth burning money for.

[ctc24]

I don't thing there's necessarily anything there. Microsoft might be burning money because they've decided that browser adoption and usage is worth it to them. It doesn't have to involve OpenAI in any way.

[sparkling]

Sorry i assumed you were talking about Github CoPilot (also owned by MS via Github)