The AI powered CoPilot O365 growth?
If CoPilot only costs 50cents/month to replicate instead of $50/month to run, will Microsofts O365 really be able to get the growth they want out of AI enabled Office?
If it only costs 50cents/month to run CoPilot then that's also 100x less Azure needed to run everyone's O365.
And if it costs 100x less to make OpenAI like LLMs, then Microsofts rather sizable investment into nuclear power plants (
https://www.npr.org/2024/09/20/nx-s1-5120581/three-mile-island-nuclear-power-plant-microsoft-ai) is looking like a waste.
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Or to put it differently: if AI is going to be 1/100th the cost than expected, how much is Microsofts $13 Billion bet on OpenAI worth right now? Maybe only $0.13 Billion if the competitions software really is this much better.
Or maybe these DeepSeek people are lying. But either way, people are asking questions today and reevaluating 365 and Azure and how it relates to AI.