Yeah, because they are desperate to try and justify the investments into Copilot and the NPUs they pushed OEMs into integrating. I'm all for competition, but every one of MS's AI models have just been nothingburgers or relabels of other lab's models. Even their novel high cardinality models are just novelties.
It depends on what you're doing. None of their models are Opus level, but not everything needs Opus. Their models are targeting cheap and useful for some common things not expensive and useful for anything