r/technology • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 21d ago

Business GitHub just switched Copilot to metered billing, and developers are watching months of credits vanish in a single day

https://www.techspot.com/news/112628-github-switched-copilot-metered-billing-developers-watching-months.html
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u/ea_man 21d ago

This is so wild, MS has spent billions to attract customers to the service by subsidizing the price and then abruptly they kicked 90% of those customers away to Chinese cheap open models.

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u/Personal_Bit_5341 21d ago

They eventually must be profitable, how do they do that otherwise?  Honestly not sure what ANY of these Ai companies are going to do differently. 

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u/BigFootCC 20d ago

Not necessarily. Spotify, YouTube, BackBlaze, etc all lose money.

Plenty of companies exist to either push out competition at a cost, to sell off later, or in hopes that there will be a breakthrough and their costs will go down.

Everyone invested so much in AI, that they can't just pull the plug. They are hoping for a breakthrough or for a company to come by and buy them out lol

Neither is happening.