Microsoft Microsoft said Tuesday it would charge at least 53 percent more for access to new artificial intelligence features in its widely used office software, a glimpse of the windfall gains the technology could bring.
The company also said that it will make a more secure version of the bing Search engine immediately available to businesses, aims to address data-security concerns, drive interest oh compete more Google,
At its virtual Inspire conference, the company said customers will pay $30 (roughly Rs. 2,500) per user per month for its AI copilot. Microsoft 365Which promises to make drafting emails in Outlook, penning documents in Word, and almost all employee data accessible through chatbot prompts.
The voluntary upgrade is on top of publicly listed monthly plans, which range from $12.50 (roughly Rs. 1,000) to $57 (roughly Rs. 4,700) per user, meaning Co-Pilot costs triple for some Microsoft customers. Can
In an interview, Jared Spataro, its corporate vice president, said the tool would pay for itself through time savings and productivity gains. copilot summarizes teams For example, call.
“You don’t take notes in meetings anymore, you don’t attend some meetings,” he said. “It just changes the way you do things.”
Spataro declined to forecast revenue from the co-pilot, which has been tested by at least 600 enterprises since it was unveiled in March. AI programs, which are potentially expensive to operate, are not yet generally available.
Meanwhile, Microsoft is pointing businesses to Bing Chat Enterprise, a bot in its search engine that can generate content and understand the Internet, including a subscription used by some 160 million workers. .
Unlike public Bing, which has been accessed by millions of web surfers in recent months, the Enterprise edition will not allow the underlying technology to view or save user data to train. An employee must log in with work credentials to receive security.
This rollout follows growing industry concern about employees entering confidential information into public chatbots, which can be read by human reviewers or reproduced with AI careful prompts.
Asked whether Bing users were vulnerable until now, Spataro said Microsoft has clarified its privacy policies and is eager to bring AI to consumers. The company also announced the ability to upload images and search-related content, as Google allows.
Its corporate push for Bing could aid in its efforts to wrest search advertising share from Google at $2 billion (roughly Rs. 16,400 crores) in revenue per cent. It could also nudge customers toward Microsoft 365 Copilot, an AI upgrade that provides access to business data and compliance controls.
“This is a very strategic move for us,” Spataro said.
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