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Re:Microsoft Abandons Personal AI Chatbot Race with Copilot ... by epihelix on Saturday September 26, 2026 @02:57AM (#49853950)
That used to be the case, but the current Enterprise version, with the poorly-named "GPT 5.6 think deeper" option, is very decent indeed. Can't tell if it's Sol, Terra or a mixture of the two, but it's certainly not Luna.

(Stick with the default "Auto" and you probably get Phi-4 -- it's lobotomised AF.)

I use Copilot a lot now. Unlimited, free, high-quality, enterprise-protected inference is not to be sniffed at. It also writes some of the nicest code I've ever seen from an LLM, that's almost entirely free of comments.

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Re:Microsoft Abandons Personal AI Chatbot Race with Copilot ... by rmaxdev on Saturday September 26, 2026 @03:34AM (#49854168)
My previous company used copilot enterprise

My experience was great because I had premium license and only used thinking models

Most colleagues didn’t have premium and used default/auto model

People stick to their very first bad experience unfortunately

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Re:Microsoft Abandons Personal AI Chatbot Race with Copilot ... by Jenk on Saturday September 26, 2026 @05:13AM (#49854691)
Are you referring to GitHub Copilot? I believe this thread is referring to Windows Copilot, such as the AI feature embedded into every Office progam, which is not the same experience.
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Re:Microsoft Abandons Personal AI Chatbot Race with Copilot ... by epihelix on Saturday September 26, 2026 @10:24AM (#49856880)
No, good ol' bog-standard Enterprise M365 Copilot. The one with the worst chat interface in history. That one.

I don't think many people are aware of just how much it can do; it's certainly not advertised, and very likely not intended.

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Re:Microsoft Abandons Personal AI Chatbot Race with Copilot ... by sterlind on Saturday September 26, 2026 @02:38PM (#49859261)
could you give some examples?
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Re:Microsoft Abandons Personal AI Chatbot Race with Copilot ... by epihelix on Sunday September 27, 2026 @01:21AM (#49863587)
Try sending this prompt to "GPT 5.6 Think Deeper" in the interface:

Provide me with optimised python code to perform a prime number search. Test the code and report on performance. Benchmark different search solutions. Provide the code in a downloadable zip archive.

A silly toy example, but it should help give a hint of what's possible.

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