Copilot just 9x'd Sonnet and 27x'd Opus and teams have no idea

The multiplier table GitHub quietly updated last week is the first visible crack in a subsidy model that was never sustainable. Quick context for anyone unfamiliar: Copilot plans give you a monthly pool of "premium requests." Each model has a multiplier that determines how fast you drain it. Until recently, Opus 4.6 had a 3x multiplier. It's now 27x. Sonnet 4.6 went from 1x to 9x. But the multiplier table is just the symptom. The actual disease is that the AI companies have been eating the difference between what compute costs and what you pay.