Microsoft raises Dynamics 365 prices starting Oct. 1
The price changes go into effect Oct. 1 and range from an additional $10 to $15 more a month per user for most apps, but $30 more for a select apps.
The price changes go into effect Oct. 1 and range from an additional $10 to $15 more a month per user for most apps, but $30 more for a select apps.
Microsoft is shoring up its consumer Copilot efforts with the addition of Mustafa Suleyman and Karén Simonyan to lead a new group called Microsoft AI. Suleyman and Simonyan were two of three co-founders of Inflection.ai.
Microsoft launched Copilot for Security, but the most interesting item is the software giant's monetization model. Copilot will go for $4 an hour in a pricing model that positions generative AI more like an inexpensive digital worker.
Microsoft said Azure delivered revenue growth of 30% in its fiscal second quarter and CEO Satya Nadella noted that moved from "talking about AI to applying AI at scale."
The Microsoft Copilot model updates land between the OpenAI soap opera and AWS' launch of its Q generative AI assistant that runs across its services.
Microsoft hires ousted OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. "We have confidence in our product roadmap, our ability to continue to innovate with everything we announced at Microsoft Ignite, and in continuing to support our customers and partners," says Satya Nadella.
With enterprises still kicking the tires on large language models (LLMs), use cases and generative AI applications, vendors are big on providing choice, bring-your-own-models and the ability to mix and match foundations.
At Microsoft's Ignite 2023 conference the company fleshed out its generative AI offerings and strategy and, in some places, put some serious distance between it and the competition.
Nadella, speaking at Microsoft's Ignite 2023 conference, said the company wants to "bring the best selection of open-source models to Azure and do so responsibly."
Microsoft fleshed out its generative AI infrastructure plans with the launch of its custom processors for model training and inference along with Copilot Studio for new use cases.
While generative AI dominated the talking points among the big three cloud hyperscalers--Microsoft Azure, AWS and Google Cloud--there was a term that remained a close second: Optimization.
Microsoft CFO Amy Hood said Microsoft Cloud revenue of $31.8 billion, up 24% from a year ago, drove the quarter.