Excerpt from CNBC
- Duet AI for Google Workspace, which can create text and images for documents and take meeting notes, will cost enterprises $30 a month per person.
- It’s the same price Microsoft will charge for its artificial intelligence enhancement tools, when the paid offering hits the market.
- Both companies are rushing to add generative AI technology to many of their core products.
Googleplans to start charging large businesses $30 per month for each user of its artificial intelligence enhancements that are being added to Gmail and other productivity apps, the company said Tuesday.
The technology — called Duet AI — will cost just as much as Microsoft's
365 Copilot enhancements, which could become available in the first half of next year. The two companies have been racing to add generative AI into more of their core products following the release of OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot late last year.
The fees are on top of what companies are already paying for their subscriptions to the productivity suites. Google says it's allowing companies to join free trials before committing to the subscription. For smaller organizations and individual users, the company hasn't finalized pricing, said Aparna Pappu, Google Workspace's vice president and general manager.
"The list price we came up with was in consideration with customers' willingness to pay for the enterprise value we're going to bundle into it," Pappu told CNBC in an interview.
Google began taking preorders for Duet AI for Google Workspace at the $30 per user price in May, but didn't disclose it publicly, Pappu said. Microsoft then announced its pricing in July.
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