[mk_chan]

The reason here is Microsoft is trying to make copilot a platform. This is the essential step to moving all the power from OpenAI to Microsoft. It would grant Microsoft leverage over all providers since the customers would depend on Microsoft and not OpenAI or Google or Anthropic. Classic platform business evolution at play here.

[sangnoir]

I'm sure there are multiple reasons, including lowering the odds of antitrust action by regulators. The EU was already sniffing around Microsoft's relationship with OpenAI.

[caesil]

I think the reason here is that Copilot is very very obviously inferior to Cursor, mostly because the model at its core is pretty dumb.

[echelon]

The Copilot team probably thinks of Cursor's efforts as cute. They can be a neat little product in their tiny corner of the market.

It's far more valuable to be a platform. Maybe Cursor can become a platform, but the race is on and they're up against giants that are moving rather surprisingly nimbly.

Github does way more, you can build on top of it, and they already have a metric ton of business relationships and enterprise customers.

[pseudosavant]

Amazing that even when they are giving users maximal choice, even including their arch-nemesis Google, they are evil? Would Microsoft be better if you could only use Microsoft models?

[renewiltord]

Interesting. Humans love memetic patterns so much we’re like chickens with lines drawn in front. We can’t help but say the thing. Like the Nam Shub of Enki it’s entered our minds and now reproduces in all sorts of contexts.

Embrace, Extend, Extinguish we say now without thought. The virus breaks containment. Like fungus on an ant it makes us summit and then spew it forth on others - self—modifying to maximize life span.

What a creature, the meme.