One of many causes for customers to purchase into Microsoft’s Copilot Professional, Customized GPT Builder, is quietly being killed off.
Microsoft mentioned that GPT Builder is being retired, and for those who have purchased into it, you’ll must take away your whole information by July 14. Sadly, Microsoft doesn’t think about the power to construct GPT fashions a shopper precedence, the corporate wrote in a assist 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 approach to personalize Copilot in a lot the identical manner you could personalize your PC: GPT Builder allowed you to coach a customized Copilot by yourself information, with your individual type. In a manner, it’s what Apple promised this week with “Apple Intelligence”: that it could know you, and that you simply’d be capable to tweak it as you see match. Now not for Copilot.
The final day to construct new GPTs can be July 10.
“We’re persevering with to judge our technique for shopper Copilot extensibility and are prioritizing core product experiences, whereas remaining dedicated to developer alternatives,” Microsoft mentioned. “To this finish, we’re shifting our give attention to GPTs to Industrial and Enterprise situations and are stopping GPT efforts in shopper Copilot.”
Microsoft mentioned that it could delete the information that it’s collected alongside the deleted GPT fashions. You will be unable 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 supplied 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.
