The cost of Copilot, the former CEO:AI programming assistant of GitHub, is lower than the price and there is no loss.

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizen Alejandro86 for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com, October 13, Nat Friedman, a former Microsoft executive and former CEO of GitHub, posted a post on platform X on October 12 to respond to previous rumors that "Microsoft's GitHub Copilot service lost a lot of money": False (false news).

Later, in response to the question "(cost) how much it actually cost" in the comments section, he said, "it's lower than the price anyway!"

This means that GitHub Copilot's revenue is higher than its computing resource costs, but the need to invest in hardware resources, the operating costs of team development is another matter, Nat Friedman did not disclose in detail.

Previously on CTOnews.com, the following:

Earlier, the Wall Street Journal reported that Microsoft had lost a lot of money on its first generative AI service, GitHub Copilot. Microsoft has lost a lot of money on GitHub Copilot since its launch. "in the first few months of this year, Microsoft lost an average of more than $20 per user per month (currently about 146 yuan)," the report said. some users cost the company as much as $80 a month (currently about 585 yuan). "

GitHub Copilot was first launched in June 2022, allowing developers to ask Copilot AI assistants to help write code for applications and services. The service currently costs $10 a month (currently about 73 yuan), or $100 a year, and GitHub Copilot is free for certified students and users with mature open source projects.

However, neither Microsoft nor GitHub issued any response to the above rumors.