Microsoft kills off Copilot GPT Builder after just 3 months

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5 points·james_chu··4 comments

Title should read "Microsoft kills off consumer version of Copilot GPT Builder after just 3 months"

It will probably kill off the commercial version in due time as well

Yes, I think it should be canceled as soon as possible, plans never catch up with changes. But I'd love to hear the reasons why? Why did Microsoft do it?

Simple economics: not enough people are paying for it so the focus is on enterprise.

My totally anecdotal evidence (three people at different companies exploring LLMs) say MSFT won't be getting the revenue from enterprise either

This should be clarified to explain that MS is only killing their version of custom GPTs (which run OpenAI tech under the hood). It is still possible to make and use custom GPTs with a subscription to ChatGPT directly from OpenAI. (A few examples of mine.[0])

The reason is simple: Most custom GPTs are crap and the idea that consumers will create a viable market out of them is nonsense. LLMs are not a way to avoid programming. They are just another way of doing programming, and naturally that requires the same skills as other kinds of programming. No consumer market for highly-sandboxed LLM software will arise out of such an offering.

[0] https://davidbethune.com/ai

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