Before, it cost $ 20 to be able to use O1. Microsoft has just offered it for free in co -dr

Microsoft has given the surprise and offers Free and free access to the O1 reasoning model of OpenAi. Through Copilot. Until now, to access this option you had to pay the $ 20 per month of co -pilot pro or the same amount per chatgpt plus. If we wanted to use it unlimited, we had to pay the 200 dollars a month of Chatgpt Pro.

Microsoft calls “Think Deper” to O1 in its services, but this is nothing more than the integration of the OpenAi model into the Redmond platform. Mustafa Suleyman, head of the AI ​​division in Microsoft, announced On Wednesday this change in the services offered by the company.

This unique change is undoubtedly due to Deepseek-R1 arrivalwhich offers a fantastic alternative to O1. He does it so much on the web – Perplexity offers it in his “Labs” and He calls it “Sound Reasoning” – also being able to install it at home on our computer in one of its compact versions. Microsoft de fact presume that it can be used without problems on Copilot+PC.

Such has been the interest in Depseek-R1 that Microsoft also announced this week that has integrated it as one of the models available in Azure Ai Foundry and Github so that companies and developers can take advantage of it.

It is a logical movement on the one hand, but strange on the other: normally Microsoft takes longer to offer new models on its platform, but the popularity of Deepseek R1 has accelerated the deadlines remarkably.

Of course this is good news for users, which You can enjoy free access to O1 / Think Deperwhich will further encourage competition between these reasoning models.

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