Microsoft made a statement on Tuesday in an effort to increase investor confidence in its investment in generative AI tools. Customers are now scrutinizing cloud spending because of economic turmoil. Satya Nadella, the CEO, announced a significant increase of GitHub Copilot users. This software helps programmers write code more quickly.
Copilot was first made available to programmers by Nadella in June 2013. Within one month, the number of users surpassed 400,000. Nadella stated Tuesday that the software’s user base has already reached a million. Copilot is growing in popularity, which suggests that people will pay more for generative AI. It’s a technology that creates original and meaningful prose from large amounts of data.
Copilot tells programmers what they should write next. Microsoft’s GitHub data last year shows that the technology can be used to automate up to 35% to 40% of file code creation. Individual subscribers will pay $100 per year, while corporate users can access the tool for $100.
Microsoft announced this week that it will make multibillion-dollar investments to develop supercomputers and cloud support services for startup OpenAI. This is the same company that created Copilot, the ChatGPT chatbot, and the Copilot website. Apart from writing poetry and essays, he can also code (although not always right). Microsoft already confirmed that ChatGPT would be available through its cloud services.
It was earlier reported that Microsoft plans to use ChatGPT for the Bing search engines, which poses a serious threat against Google’s dominant position in the market. Google is also working fast on its own AI tools.
Nadella claimed that Azure OpenAI, which provides access to the company’s technologies in the Microsoft Cloud, has attracted 200 customers already, including the well-known KPMG audit firm and Al Jazeera news agency.