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Considering the cost of running these LLMs behind the scenes, and the giant customer base of Office, Windows, Bing, Edge, etc. I wonder how Microsoft will keep
by justanotheratom 3y ago
Considering the cost of running these LLMs behind the scenes, and the giant customer base of Office, Windows, Bing, Edge, etc. I wonder how Microsoft will keep things profitable. I guess they can just raise subscription price of Microsoft 365 at some point.
- partiallypro 3y agoMicrosoft has tons of cash and on-going profits to be a loss leader for a while, also I imagine they will eventually limit some features to Microsoft 365 users only. They already charge extra for Teams with Copilot, etc; that's not a standard Teams feature. They also announced a "copilot" stack today, which I imagine they will charge for API usage on top of what they are going to be making from ChatGPT.
- pixl97 3y agoWith the operating costs of AI at this time, this is going to be the big question for everyone. One of these you can't afford not to have it, but your can't afford to have it either. With all this said, Microsoft/Google/Apple have been sucking up stupid profits for decades now and it really is time for their unlimited money machine to have some pushback.
- PeterStuer 3y agoSame would have been said of running IBM mainframes in the 1970's no?