Microsoft is taking Windows Copilot to the next level with Windows Copilot Pro and bringing Microsoft 365 Copilot to businesses of all sizes.
Windows Copilot and 365 Copilot are Microsoft's newest AI digital assistants to help users with all kinds of tasks and projects that we learned about last year, and they're getting a big boost with higher-level AI functionality.
Microsoft is officially introducing Copilot Pro, available for individual users to subscribe for $20 per month (per user) starting today, January 16.
This version of Copilot will allow people to improve their productivity and user experience with the best that Copilot has to offer in terms of AI features, capacity, speed of performance, and the ability to access Copilot at peak times.
This will also give users with a personal or home subscription access to Copilot Pro in Microsoft 365 apps such as Word, Excel, OneNote and available for PowerPoint on PC, Mac and iPad. This is similar to the existing Microsoft 365 Copilot built for enterprise customers, which requires an enterprise subscription, but now these Copilot AI capabilities will also be available to Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscribers.
The crème de la Copilot on offer
If you choose to sign up for Copilot Pro, it will give you priority access to the latest OpenAI models, such as OpenAI's next-generation GPT-4 Turbo, and allow you to create and customize your own Copilot GPT bot. to a topic of your choice.
Copilot Pro will give users greater freedom over how and what they use Copilot Pro by allowing them to switch between models and try different options to optimize their experience.
Users will be able to build and shape these custom Copilot GPTs in a new Copilot GPT Builder (similar to the commercial version released last year) by answering a few simple prompts, and Microsoft assures us it will be available soon.
You can also expect an update to Microsoft's AI imaging with Designer's Image Creator (previously known as Bing Image Creator). With Copilot Pro, you'll get 100x magnification (accelerated imaging processes), greater image detail and quality, and horizontal image format.
Along with the introduction of Copilot Pro for individual use, Copilot for Microsoft 365 will be available to more types of business customers, particularly small and medium-sized businesses. Moving forward, there is no employee minimum, lower prerequisites, and more availability of Copilot subscriptions through Microsoft partners.
New Copilot updates and a new Copilot app
For those users who want to continue experimenting with Copilot for free, there is also something to pay attention to. The free version of Copilot includes Copilot GPTs that allow you to customize and tailor a Copilot so that you can discuss a particular topic of your choice. Today you should be able to see some of the topics that are already available, such as fitness, travel, cooking, and more.
Along with these developments, Copilot will get an iOS app and an Android app, and Copilot will come to the Microsoft 365 mobile app. With these new apps, you'll be able to run a single AI on your devices, capable of analyzing information from your Internet usage. web, your PC usage, and the applications you use to make your help more context-specific.
The Copilot app is equipped with the same powerful tools that the PC version benefits from, such as GPT-4, the imaging capabilities of Dall-E 3, and the ability to input your own images into Copilot and have it respond to them.
Copilot will be added to the Microsoft 365 app on iOS and Android devices over the next month for users who have a Microsoft account, and these users will be able to export the content they generate as a Word document or PDF. Microsoft's vision for this is that you'll be able to invoke Copilot almost instantly, as soon as you need it, and no matter what device you're currently using.
Microsoft is just getting started
There also seems to be a lot more Copilot Pro features in the works, similar to how we've seen multiple improvements to the standard version of Copilot in Windows 11. Divya Kumar conveyed this while speaking to The Verge, referring to Microsoft's recent release schedule. like “rumbling thunder.”
With Copilot Pro, Microsoft aims to capture the attention of “power users such as creators, researchers, programmers, and others” who might be interested in the latest innovations it, with its collaborator OpenAI, has to offer.
Microsoft has recently surpassed Apple as the most valuable company in the world and shows no signs of losing steam. Yusuf Mehdi, executive vice president and chief consumer marketing officer at Microsoft, says Copilot empowers “every person and organization on the planet to achieve more.” If there's a reason you might want or even need digital help or advice, it's clear how eager Microsoft is to be there to meet it.
