Microsoft has cut its sales targets for its agentic AI software after struggling to find buyers interested in using it. In some cases, targets have been slashed by up to 50%, suggesting Microsoft overestimated the potential of its new AI tools. Indeed, compared with ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini, Copilot is falling behind, raising concerns about Microsoft’s substantial AI investment.
Petulance aside, tests from earlier this year found that AI agents failed to complete tasks up to 70% of the time, making them almost entirely redundant as a workforce replacement tool. At best, they’re a way for skilled employees to be more productive and save time on low-level tasks, but those tasks were already being handed off to lower-level employees. Having an AI do it and fail half the time isn’t exactly a winning alternative.
Other AI companies are just doing better, too. Windows Central reports that OpenAI’s ChatGPT commands over 61% of the market, and Google’s Gemini is now less than 1% behind Microsoft’s 14% with Copilot. That’s after a 12% growth over the last quarter, too, suggesting Gemini is well on its way to becoming the real second-place alternative to ChatGPT.
Bitwig runs very well. The only “issue” with Linux is that you might need to either choose a distro that ships with a solid audio system and low latency kernel (ie any media or gaming / “studio” oriented distro) or you make those changes to whatever regular distro you choose.
Oh the other issue which is more serious is that some VSTs can be annoying to run on Linux.
I’m just a hobbiest tho and have been enjoying bitwig for a while on a regular shitty mint install without problems. IIRC you can get a time limited trial for the basic 16 track bitwig with a subset of its included instruments and sample packs for free, which I definitely recommend cuz it’s quite different even to ableton let alone anything from steinberg or NI.
That’s good to know, thanks.
So, another issue with Linux is that I get mystery reverb that happens only some of the time with my audio output. Just, my general audio out will just be saturated with reverb for no god damned reason. Doesn’t seem to be related to any specific program or anything, but my Zoom calls, slack notifications, youtube videos, and general audio signal is just reverb-ified.
I don’t know WHAT THE EVERLOVING FUCK causes it or where it comes from, never mind how to stop it from happening. I cannot verify-ably reproduce it, let alone trouble shoot it. I am baffled.
I dread the day that I am trying to produce a song in a DAW and it happens.