Microsoft is killing an enormous AI characteristic in Copilot Professional
One of many causes for shoppers to purchase into Microsoft’s Copilot Professional, Customized GPT Builder, is quietly being killed off.
Microsoft mentioned that GPT Builder is being retired, and if you happen to have purchased into it, you’ll must take away your whole knowledge by July 14. Sadly, Microsoft doesn’t think about the power to construct GPT fashions a client precedence, the corporate wrote in a assist doc.
Microsoft Copilot is a “impartial,” Microsoft-specific model of Copilot. Primarily, it’s the identical expertise for all customers. You’ll be able to consider GPT Builder as a option to personalize Copilot in a lot the identical method you could personalize your PC: GPT Builder allowed you to coach a customized Copilot by yourself knowledge, with your individual model. In a method, it’s what Apple promised this week with “Apple Intelligence”: that it will know you, and that you just’d be capable to tweak it as you see match. Now not for Copilot.
The final day to construct new GPTs might be July 10.
“We’re persevering with to guage our technique for client Copilot extensibility and are prioritizing core product experiences, whereas remaining dedicated to developer alternatives,” Microsoft mentioned. “To this finish, we’re shifting our give attention to GPTs to Business and Enterprise situations and are stopping GPT efforts in client Copilot.”
Microsoft mentioned that it will delete the info that it’s collected alongside the deleted GPT fashions. You won’t be able to entry any created GPTs after July 14, both.
Microsoft’s determination, nevertheless, undercuts one of many solely causes to subscribe to Microsoft Copilot Professional, a $20/mo subscription for shoppers that Microsoft introduced in January. Copilot Professional provided three advantages above the essential Copilot providing: precedence entry to new LLMs; Copilot in Workplace (Phrase, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote), and the Customized GPT Builder. Now, solely the primary two stay.