For the first time, certain features of the notepad and the painting of the long-standing Microsoft applications will require a paying subscription. As indicated by PC world Earlier this year, some more recent features that have been added to applications who use AILike an images generator in the painting and rewriting of the AI of the text in the notepad, will require a Microsoft 365 account paid.
The features are not in the paint and the notepad should continue to operate. Those who are not accessible due to a lack of subscription can be grayed out in applications. A Microsoft representative said that the company had no additional comments.
Microsoft, which has invested billions of dollars in one of the IA leaders in industry, OpenAi, has introduced artificial intelligence features in different applications and services, including its Xbox game Division, and voice and reasoning features for Windows via its Co -pilot application. Some additions have increase prices In some regions of Microsoft 365, the subscription service it offers for around $ 10 per month or $ 99 per year.
All the efforts of Microsoft AI have not been enthusiastic about users. The recall of the features of the co -pilot, which takes snapshots of a user’s activities to improve research, has been delayed, with Microsoft defend oneself Against the affirmations that the application was a nightmare of confidentiality and security. In December, news emerged this reminder could capture Information such as credit card numbers and social security numbers during the screenshot of user activity.
In the case of notebooks and paint, it seems that the payment wall The features of the AI would not affect the possibility for Windows users who do not have a 365 subscription to access and use the applications for everything else. Microsoft posted A few details About the new AI features on one of his blogs in November.
Ram BalaAssociate professor of commercial analysis at the Leavey School of Business at the University of Santa Clara, said that the move of Microsoft AI extends over a freemium strategy that could help strengthen the demand for these features. But in the AI era, there are more variable costs involved in the use of large -language models for such tasks.
“This makes the provision of new AI features for free a loss of loss,” said Bala à Cnet. “Prices based on use will be much more widespread for AI products where the use of tokens is a major cost factor for businesses.”
Bala said that we will see more examples of technological companies trying to find a means of price of services based on AI.
“It goes beyond Mistrial recently introduced An OCR product that charges $ 1 per 1,000 pages, “noted Bala.” Companies will experience other forms of use of resources such as the number of sessions. “”
