Since its announcement in April this year, the proposed changes to billing methods on GitHub Copilot were a source of much speculation: how much more or less would a pay-a-you-use AI cost an organisation or individual compared to a flat-rate, monthly subscription? Just a day into the changeover to token-based billing for the LLM-based service, […]
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Projection, much? Microsoft’s head of AI has accused a rival’s AI service of being too pricey, just as the introduction of usage-based pricing for GitHub Copilot begins to hit developers using its own services.
“Anthropic is extremely expensive and I think many people are urgently looking for alternatives,” Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, told Bloomberg News.
The spotlight is on the cost of AI services at the moment, with so many different parts of the business using the technology while at the same time many businesses are finding it hard to report any meaningful ROI.
This week, Microsoft at its annual Build conference looked to fight back against this when it announced seven new AI models, emphasizing the lower cost. The company hopes that cheaper AI models will mean more enterprises find that AI projects are viable. In 2025, Gartner reported that many such endeavors would be cancelled by 2027: cheaper implementations could be the way forward.
Microsoft clearly sees its own AI
Microsoft has announced the wider testing of its new Autopilot feature at the Microsoft Build event this week, backed by a post on the company’s’ website. Autopilots are described as a new category of agents that can work autonomously on a user’s behalf. Microsoft says each Autopilot has its own identity, and so multiple agents […]
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Walmart has reportedly begun limiting employees’ use of an internal AI assistant called Code Puppy after demands placed on the LLM backing the tool were higher than expected. Employees of Walmart were encouraged to use Code Puppy without any stricture or stipulations as to the limits of use, but Walmart is now assigning employees a […]
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Automation is becoming a bigger part of how financial markets are approached, and forex trading is one area where this is becoming easier to notice. As the tech world improves, more traders are looking for ways to stay involved in the market without the need to sit in front of charts for hours at a […]
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Google Pay is overhauling its payment infrastructure for an impending wave of transactions from AI agents. The latest updates introduce the Universal Commerce Protocol and a new server architecture, positioning Google Pay as a central clearinghouse for purchases executed by autonomous agents rather than human users. AI agents – designed to perform tasks like booking […]
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Every major economy is staring at the same problem right now. Artificial intelligence is consuming electricity at a pace that grids were never designed to handle. In the US, capacity market prices in PJM, the country’s largest grid operator, have risen more than tenfold in two years, with data-centre growth identified as a primary driver. […]
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