Microsoft is killing an enormous AI characteristic in Copilot Professional

One of many causes for customers to purchase into Microsoft’s Copilot Professional, Customized GPT Builder, is quietly being killed off.

Microsoft stated that GPT Builder is being retired, and if you happen to have purchased into it, you’ll need to take away your whole information by July 14. Sadly, Microsoft doesn’t contemplate the power to construct GPT fashions a client precedence, the corporate wrote in a help doc.

Microsoft Copilot is a “impartial,” Microsoft-specific model of Copilot. Basically, it’s the identical expertise for all customers. You may consider GPT Builder as a strategy to personalize Copilot in a lot the identical manner which you could personalize your PC: GPT Builder allowed you to coach a customized Copilot by yourself information, with your personal model. In a manner, it’s what Apple promised this week with “Apple Intelligence”: that it will know you, and that you simply’d have the ability to tweak it as you see match. Now not for Copilot.

The final day to construct new GPTs will probably be July 10.

“We’re persevering with to guage our technique for client Copilot extensibility and are prioritizing core product experiences, whereas remaining dedicated to developer alternatives,” Microsoft stated. “To this finish, we’re shifting our concentrate on GPTs to Industrial and Enterprise situations and are stopping GPT efforts in client Copilot.”

Microsoft stated that it will delete the information that it’s collected alongside the deleted GPT fashions. You won’t be able to entry any created GPTs after July 14, both.

Microsoft’s resolution, nonetheless, undercuts one of many solely causes to subscribe to Microsoft Copilot Professional, a $20/mo subscription for customers that Microsoft introduced in January. Copilot Professional provided three advantages above the essential Copilot providing: precedence entry to new LLMs; Copilot in Workplace (Phrase, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote), and the Customized GPT Builder. Now, solely the primary two stay.