Why bosses will pay a premium for Microsoft’s ChatGPT tools

Microsoft 365, the workplace apps used by hundreds of millions of employees globally, is about to get a lot smarter after ingesting OpenAI’s GPT-4 model to automate office chores. But the voluntary upgrade isn’t cheap.

Last week the company revealed the new features, which it calls Copilot, will cost $US30 ($44) per user, per month, a 53 per cent to 83 per cent increase to the average cost of business-grade versions of the Microsoft 365 service.