Microsoft celebrates the increasing adoption of Microsoft Copilot, aiming to empower users globally. They've achieved milestones, with over 5 billion chats and images exchanged. Feedback highlights the desire for faster access to updates and integration into Microsoft 365 for personal use. To address this, Microsoft introduces Copilot Pro, a premium subscription offering enhanced AI services, extending Copilot to Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscribers, and enabling Copilot GPT creation. Additionally, they launch the Copilot app for iOS and Android, broadening accessibility. Commercially, Copilot for Microsoft 365 expands to businesses of all sizes, including small and medium enterprises. These advancements signify Microsoft's commitment to enhancing Copilot's capabilities and accessibility for diverse user needs, aligning with their vision to empower individuals and organisations worldwide.
Introducing Copilot Pro: Supercharge your creativity and productivity
Microsoft are pleased to introduce Copilot Pro, a fresh subscription offering the pinnacle of Microsoft Copilot's features and capabilities to individuals seeking to enhance their Copilot journey. Whether you require expert assistance in writing, coding, designing, researching, or learning, Copilot Pro elevates performance, productivity, and creativity to new heights.
Copilot Pro provides:
- A single AI experience that runs across your devices, understanding your context on the web, on your PC, across your apps and soon on your phone to bring the right skills to you when you need them.
- Access to Copilot in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote on PC, Mac and iPad for Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscribers.
- Priority access to the very latest models – starting today with OpenAI’s GPT-4 Turbo. With Copilot Pro you’ll have access to GPT-4 Turbo during peak times for faster performance and, coming soon, the ability to toggle between models to optimize your experience how you choose.
- Enhanced AI image creation with Image Creator from Designer (formerly Bing Image Creator) – ensuring it’s faster with 100 boosts per day while bringing you more detailed image quality as well as landscape image format.
- The ability to build your own Copilot GPT – a customized Copilot tailored for a specific topic – in our new Copilot GPT Builder (coming soon) with just a simple set of prompts.
Expanding Copilot for Microsoft 365 to businesses of all sizes
While Copilot Pro offers the premier individual experience, Copilot for Microsoft 365 stands as the ultimate organizational solution. Copilot for Microsoft 365 was officially launched for enterprises in November, following the participation of 40% of the Fortune 100 in our Early Access Program, with notable customers including Visa, BP, Honda, Pfizer, and esteemed partners like Accenture, KPMG, and PwC already leveraging Copilot. This signifies a shift towards AI-assisted workflows across diverse industries. Today, we're thrilled to extend Copilot for Microsoft 365 to organisations of all sizes, with no seat minimum. Furthermore, we're empowering our partners to facilitate the integration of AI into every business operation.
Updates include:
- Copilot for Microsoft 365 is now generally available for small businesses with Microsoft 365 Business Premium and Business Standard Customers can purchase between one and 300 seats for $30 per person per month.
- Microsoft are removing the 300-seat purchase minimum for commercial plans and making Copilot available for Office 365 E3 and E5 customers (A Microsoft 365 license was previously required).
- Commercial customers can now purchase Copilot for Microsoft 365 through our amazing network of Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider partners.
- Last month, Microsoft also announced eligibility of Copilot for Microsoft 365 for education faculty and staff.
Copilot for Microsoft 365 presents enhanced capabilities for organisations by seamlessly integrating with your entire array of work data, encompassing emails, meetings, chats, documents, and online content. With intuitive prompts such as "Inform my team about the updated product strategy," Copilot generates comprehensive updates leveraging morning interactions from various platforms. Moreover, Copilot seamlessly integrates with widely-used applications like Microsoft Teams, facilitating collaboration and productivity. It catalyzes creativity in Word, conducts data analysis in Excel, aids in presentation design in PowerPoint, manages Outlook inboxes, and provides meeting summaries in Teams, irrespective of attendance. Supported by robust enterprise-grade security, privacy, and compliance measures, along with Microsoft's Customer Copyright Commitment, Copilot empowers businesses of all scales to achieve heightened efficiency and innovation through AI integration. Further insights are available on the Microsoft 365 blog.
Introducing new features in Copilot
As Microsoft expamd Copilot's accessibility to a wider audience, we remain committed to providing an excellent free experience for those intrigued by Copilot's potential in enhancing productivity and fostering creativity through AI. Today, they're thrilled to unveil further enhancements to Copilot. To begin exploring Copilot's capabilities, simply visit copilot.microsoft.com.
- Copilot GPTs – Copilot GPTs let you customise the behavior of Microsoft Copilot on a topic that is of particular interest to you. A handful of Copilot GPTs will start to roll out beginning today with specific purposes such as fitness, travel, cooking and more. Soon, Copilot Pro users will also be able to create their own Copilot GPTs using Copilot GPT Builder. Stay tuned for more on this experience as Microsoft get closer to availability.
- Copilot mobile app – The Copilot mobile app is now available for Android and iOS. The Copilot app gives you the power of Copilot on the go as your Copilot queries and chats will roam across your phone and PC. The Copilot mobile app includes the same capabilities of Copilot on your PC including access to GPT-4, Dall-E 3 for image creation, and the ability to use images from your phone when chatting with Copilot. Download the app from the Google Play Store or the Apple App Store.
- Copilot in the Microsoft 365 mobile app – Microsoft are adding Copilot to the Microsoft 365 mobile app for Android and iOS for individuals with a Microsoft account. This new feature is rolling out over the next month. Access Copilot right inside the app and easily export the content you create to a Word or PDF document. Download the app from the Google Play Store or the Apple App Store.