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by fancyfredbot 53 days ago
Microsoft recently announced changes to copilot because, apparently, it was losing money on inference.
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UltraSane 53 days ago
They were charging a flat rate per query no matter how many tokens it consumed. People naturally got very good at writing prompts that used as many tokens as possible.
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kingstnap 53 days ago
They were loosing money giving absurdly generous agentic usage on expensive models to people with $10 to $40 flat rate subscriptions.

They weren't selling inference.

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