- According to reports, Barclays agreed to buy more than 100K co -driver licenses
- Microsoft has signed multiple similar agreements with other companies such as Siemens
- The firm will invest $ 80 billion in the only this year.
Microsoft recently announced at a City Council meeting that has signed an agreement with Barclays Bank, in which it will provide 100,000 Copilot Ai assistance licenses.
The commercial director of Microsoft, Judson Althoff, recently revealed to the company’s City Council attendees: “Multiple dozen”, customers have more than 100,000 co -pilot users, including Volkswagen, Siemens and Toyota, offers that could bring tens of millions per year for Microsoft.
The official price of a single license is $ 30 per month, but it is likely that great agreements, such as the rumored Barclays agreement, have a discount.
Spend billions, doing millions
Microsoft has invested a lot in AI, and it is forecast to spend $ 80 billion in technology in 2025, and it is unlikely that dozens of millions made in these agreements make a dent in the company’s expenses.
The company refused to comment on the Barclays agreement when Techradar Pro Contact.
The two companies have a history of working together, with The registration Noting that they agreed several years for the use of Microsoft equipment in August 2022.
The Executive Director of Microsoft, Satya Nadella, has emphasized an approach to user participation on pure sales statistics, and despite remaining profitable, Microsoft has announced large -scale layoffs, between 6,000 and 7,000 jobs that are expected throughout the world, which is equivalent to almost 3% of the company’s workforce, only two years after 10,000 people were reduced by the 10,000 people of the workforce).
“We continue to implement the necessary organizational changes to better position the company for success in a dynamic market,” confirmed a company spokesman.
“It was not about people failures. It was about repositioning what is coming later,” Nadella said at that time, who continued emphasizing that in terms of Copilot, “adoption is key,” arguing that organizations need to completely integrate the assistant technology in their daily workflows to unlock their total potential.
Through Bloomberg
