As you already know, both the free version of Copilot available to all interested parties and its paid version are based on OpenAI technology, especially on its GPT models. However, and as they specified from the beginning when the new Bing was introduced at the beginning of last year, they made it clear that we are not facing some kind of ChatGPT clone, since their solution also includes their own development and technologies, which were grouped, at least initially, under the name of Prometheus.

However, those from Redmond decided to introduce some differentiating elements That doesn’t rule out how much they have in common.to which we must add that a number of providers of this type of service are… well, let’s say that they are inspired by the designs of their competitors, which means that we often come across a novel feature presented by one of them Quickly makes the leap, albeit with certain modifications, at least to some of their rivals.

This, however, in the case of Microsoft and OpenAI, it deserves special attention, and we must not forget that Microsoft is part of the shareholders of ChatGPT, and therefore it is increasingly understood that Copilot can reproduce not only its functions, but also, as in this case, its names. And one of the exclusive features of Copilot Pro are GPTs, personalized chatbots that are based on a standard model, but we can “tune” them in different ways. Yes, you’re right, we’re talking about the same feature (and the same name) that OpenAI introduced at the end of last year.

The initial experience with OpenAI was not very positive and today there are aspects that need to be polished, but it seems that the company continues to bet on them, so much so that in the presentation of GPT-4o it extended its reach to free accounts. However, we cannot say the same about those from Redmond, because, as the company itself confirmed, The GPT Builder feature will be removed from Copilot Pro and will be removed in July. From the 10th day, it will no longer be possible to create new GPT tags, and between that day and the 14th of the same month, all existing ones will be deleted.

The reason for the discontinuation of this Copilot Pro feature is, as we can read on the same page, “we are shifting our focus on GPT to commercial and enterprise scenarios and suspending GPT efforts in consumer Copilot«. And this is actually even more remarkable than the elimination of GPT Builder, because it tells us that the payment tool does not seem to have reached the expected reach in the consumer market, and this makes me think about the position in the said market, its main competitors, as well as according to reasons why this might happen. Maybe it has to do with the fact that twenty euros a month, 240 a year, is beyond the budget that many individuals consider for a tool of this type?