Hi, everyone. Great to be here. My name is Dr. Masoud Nafey, and I'm here to talk to you a little bit about the most common AI models or large language models. These are platforms that you can use either for free or use the pro versions for roughly $20 a month. That’s pretty much the standard fee for all these models.
With the pro versions, you will get faster processing power, the latest and greatest models, and more functionality. You'll have more features available to you, and you'll be able to use the model’s computational power more. You’ll be able to process more data, and you won't get that error message saying you ran out of usage. So all of these that I'm going to speak about have a free version you can use, but the pro versions with those additional features are about $20 a month.
Next, we'll move on to Microsoft’s suite of AI tools, which is Microsoft Copilot. Microsoft, similar to Google, is really good at Microsoft 365 workflows. If you have a Microsoft email, you probably already have access to Copilot Pro, which is the paid version with additional features and functionality.
Microsoft Copilot is really good at handling things like meeting summaries if your notes are in OneDrive. It’s also great at PowerPoint creation because PowerPoint is a Microsoft tool, enterprise productivity because a lot of enterprises use Microsoft or a Microsoft shop, if you will, for their emails and whatnot. And of course, if you use Microsoft's Excel, Copilot is really good at collaborating within that software as well.
So, again, some of you might already have a Microsoft email for your practice. If it's powered by Microsoft's system, you already have Copilot Pro accessible to you, and that's you saving $20 a month because you're already paying for it in your subscription for your email. Overall, I would say Copilot is generally good at most things, but it’s excellent at collaborating within your Microsoft suite of tools.
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