Microsoft announces Copilot Pro AI Assistant, available to consumers and small businesses for $20 a month

For the same cost, Copilot Pro provides functionality comparable to those of OpenAI’s ChatGPT Plus

In an attempt to boost the number of paying users for the new services, Microsoft is making the corporate version of its artificial intelligence assistant available to smaller businesses and opening it up to consumers.

The Redmond, Washington-based software behemoth, Microsoft, announced in a statement that it is now offering a $20 per month (about Rs. 1,659) consumer edition of Copilot that gives users access to OpenAI’s most recent ChatGPT technology and image-creation tools. Copilot can be used by customers who have an Office cloud subscription to aid with data summaries, question answering, and content creation in Word, Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint.

The enterprise service will no longer require 300 subscriptions, since the company that has been offering a comparable product to major enterprises for $30 (about Rs. 2,489) per user, will no longer offer this minimum.

Microsoft’s Office products continue to be one of the best methods to convince users to pay extra for artificial intelligence support, even after the company redesigned almost all of its products around OpenAI-based artificial intelligence technologies. Demand, according to executives, is particularly high; Azure Chief Scott Guthrie compared it to the lineups outside stores over thirty years ago to buy Windows 95 software.

Since March, Microsoft has been testing the Office-based copilot, which is now known as Copilot for Microsoft 365. In November, the corporation started offering it to the general public, provided that businesses bought 300 or more memberships. Small businesses and those looking to start with a smaller trial were left out, according to Microsoft vice president Jared Spataro, in an interview.

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“The demand for a product like Copilot from Microsoft 365 that we are seeing in the commercial space is simply unprecedented,” he remarked. “Small and medium-sized enterprises have put pressure on us like never before, asking why they won’t allow us purchase this. “Let’s give it a try.”

Prior to Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella’s speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Microsoft revealed the new services in an interview with Bloomberg.

Although the interaction with Office sets Microsoft’s Copilot Pro consumer service apart from OpenAI’s ChatGPT Plus, both products have comparable features at the same pricing, according to Spataro. The business intends to release a building tool that allows individuals to develop their own Copilots for a particular topic, a service that is already offered to enterprises. This tool is similar to what OpenAI introduced last year.

Microsoft’s consumer and commercial versions have different privacy policies. Microsoft stated that it will save some of the prompts and answers from the consumer model in order to retrain models and enhance the product, in contrast to data from corporate users.