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Microsoft is replacing OpenAI in Copilot to cut AI costs (cybernews.com)

submitted 1 week ago by jackmaoist@hexbear.net to c/technology@hexbear.net

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Microsoft is replacing OpenAI and Anthropic models with its own MAI models in Excel and Outlook to cut soaring AI costs.

Heavy AI users can cost up to $14,000 on a $200 subscription, forcing companies to subsidize usage and seek cheaper alternatives.

Microsoft's in-house models perform significantly worse than premium rivals, closer to open-source options like DeepSeek than Anthropic's best models.

Businesses are switching to Chinese AI providers charging 18 cents per million tokens versus $4 for Western models, reshaping the industry.

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[–] DogThatWentGorp@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If it's anything like their other software having the most obscure and Byzantine menus and features here's how it'll go:

"Michael's Slop AI I want to write a document"

"Okay. Opening up document center page."

"No just open word"

"Hi. : ). The document center page has everything you need to get creating! Your subscription has given you access to a TON of new features you can browse at any time"

"No, open word"

"Got it. I'll close that for you. Anything else?"

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

the most obscure and Byzantine menus and features

It's as if that's their goal. Why give the user the option of a single click to do what they want? That's no fun! Let's give them six inferior ways that take five times as long. Plus we should consider an extra buggy method that only works about 50% of the time.

[–] DogThatWentGorp@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago

My favorite is changing audio settings or plugging in new devices.

They have the device manager, then they also have the microslop minimalist block menu "your devices" thing THEN they have different sub menus attached to a whole other part of system settings for monitors and audio each THEN there's a per-app audio mixer that you can only get to by navigating through a chain of menus somehow.

And everytime you try to get to the normal, legacy device manager it sends you to the funky "these are your microphones" page that doesn't even let you detect or configure anything.

And I put up with it like a little pain pig. Like a little masochist freak. I NEEED Linux the next time I can make a PC (which will be god knows how many years at this point).