Microsoft scraps Copilot Pro GPT Builder and removes all user data

Are you one of many individuals who used the GPT Builder in Microsoft’s AI-based Copilot Professional? In that case, the function is now gone, at the very least for customers.

Microsoft completely squashed the device on July 10 and eliminated all GPTs — these created by the corporate and its clients — from July 10 by July 14. In a nod towards privateness, any knowledge related to or collected by the GPTs must also have been eliminated.

In June, Microsoft introduced that it was retiring the GPT Builder as a part of its CopIlot Professional subscription.

Launched simply 4 months in the past in mid-March, Copilot’s GPT Builder labored equally to OpenAI’s ChatGPT Plus GPT Builder. Each instruments allow you to create your personal customized GPT chatbots to make use of your self or share with others. Creating your personal task-specific chatbot this fashion requires no coding expertise or information because the device talks you thru the method.

The distinction is that the ChatGPT Plus GPT Builder permits you to use your GPTs privately, share them with particular individuals, or publish them to the GPT retailer. With Copilot Professional’s GPT Builder, you might use them solely privately or share them with particular individuals.

Why kill off the device after solely 4 months of life? Here is Microsoft’s clarification:

“We’re persevering with to judge our technique for client Copilot extensibility and are prioritizing core product experiences, whereas remaining dedicated to developer alternatives,” the corporate mentioned on the assist web page. “To this finish, we’re shifting our give attention to GPTs to Business and Enterprise eventualities and are stopping GPT efforts in client Copilot.”

This makes it sound as if customized GPTs and the GPT Builder could have a future for business and enterprise clients, although Microsoft hasn’t elaborated on this chance. In any other case, the device could have merely did not catch on with subscribers, and the corporate might need determined it was now not definitely worth the effort and time to assist it.

Within the meantime, what do you do if you happen to’ve created customized Copilot GPTs? You need to have already backed them up. For that, you’ll’ve opened your customized GPT in Edit mode and chosen the Configure tab. You’d then copy the directions and paste them someplace else. If you have not backed up your GPTs, the deadline has handed, so that you’re out of luck at this level.

Firms with generative AI merchandise have tried to earn income by promoting paid subscriptions with premium options. Past OpenAI and its ChatGPT Plus plan, Google markets a Gemini Superior subscription. These two plans and Copilot Professional every price $20 a month.

As compared with the perks provided by different subscriptions, the principle profit to Microsoft’s Copilot Professional is AI for Microsoft 365 on the desktop and on the net. This implies you should utilize AI to write down, revise, and analyze paperwork in Phrase, emails in Outlook, shows in PowerPoint, and knowledge in Excel.

Is the retirement of its GPT Builder an indication that Microsoft is shedding religion within the client model of Copilot Professional? That is troublesome to say. However it’s telling that the corporate’s assist web page presents steps on the right way to cancel your Copilot Professional subscription.