Vision is the first AI experience of its kind, available only on Microsoft Edge. It is a new way to invite AI along with you as you navigate the web, tucked neatly into the bottom of your Edge browser whenever you want to ask for help. It’s almost like having a second set of eyes as you browse, just turn on Copilot Vision to instantly scan, analyze, and offer insights based on what it sees.  
 
For example, imagine having it help you plan a fun day at a museum, pointing out all the information you need to know before you visit.

Or maybe Vision could help with your holiday shopping by pointing out which products you see on a page that match your needs and preferences.

Vision could even simplify information and learning. Watch Vision help us learn how to play a new game, like Geoguessr.

Your Privacy Matters

As we’ve built Copilot Vision, we have made your security, control and privacy the top priority.  To start, Vision is entirely opt-in, so you decide when to turn it on as your second set of eyes on the web. In addition, once you end a session with Vision, all data about what you say and the context you share with Copilot is deleted. Every time you use Vision, your data is handled and protected in accordance with the Microsoft Privacy Statement.  Only Copilot’s responses are logged to improve our safety systems.   

Early Feedback 

Vision is still an experimental experience. As we roll this out, Vision will only interact with a select set of websites to start. Over time, we will cautiously expand this list. It’s important to stress that Vision does not capture, store or use any data from publishers to train our models. In short, we’re prioritizing copyright, creators, and our user’s privacy and safety – and are putting them all first.   

We’re encouraged by early feedback, working closely with a group of impartial testers outside of Microsoft, to help us make this a useful and safe experience right out of the gate. Some of those we’ve collaborated with are third-party publishers, who help us understand how Vision could be used to help people better engage and make decisions on their pages. These inputs will help us design Vision to be more helpful in how it interacts with web pages.  

Availability 

We are rolling Vision out carefully, coming first to a limited number of Copilot Pro subscribers in the United States, through Copilot Labs. As mentioned, Vision will only work on a select set of websites initially. We’re taking our time to gather feedback, iterate on the technology, and will expand access to more Pro subscribers and more websites over time.  

Thank you again to everyone using Copilot and sharing feedback on what’s working, and what can be improved. It’s how we will make AI more supportive and truly helpful. Join us on this journey: learn about Copilot Labs, or see what you can already do today with Copilot in Edge, or Copilot on iOS, Android and other social apps. 

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Yet technology for its own sake counts for nothing. What matters is how it feels to people and what impact it has on societies. It’s about how it changes lives, opens doors, expands minds and relieves pressure. It is perhaps the greatest amplifier of human well-being in history, one of the most effective ways to create tangible and lasting benefits for billions of people.

And yet technology is, and must always remain, in service to humanity: an enabler and a path to deepening our common bonds and shared understanding, our energy and imagination, our creativity and our capacity for everything from invention to forming relationships.

In the field of AI, we often get caught up in the technical details. We spend our time talking about parameters and compute. The focus is on training runs, datacenters and the latest techniques. This is natural and inevitable when operating on the frontiers of something new, where the details do really matter. But I think it’s important that in doing all of this, getting stuck right in the technical weeds, we don’t lose sight of not only what we are building, but why we are building it.

At Microsoft AI, we are creating an AI companion for everyone.

I truly believe we can create a calmer, more helpful and supportive era of technology, quite unlike anything we’ve seen before. Great technology experiences are about how you feel, not what’s under the hood. It should be about what you experience, not what we are building.

Copilot will be there for you, in your corner, by your side and always strongly aligned with your interests. It understands the context of your life, while safeguarding your privacy, data and security, remembering the details that are most helpful in any situation. It gives you access to a universe of knowledge, simplifying and decluttering the daily barrage of information, and offering support and encouragement when you want it.

Over time it’ll adapt to your mannerisms and develop capabilities built around your preferences and needs. We are not creating a static tool so much as establishing a dynamic, emergent and evolving interaction. It will provide you with unwavering support to help you show up the way you really want in your everyday life, a new means of facilitating human connections and accomplishments alike.

With your permission, Copilot will ultimately be able to act on your behalf, smoothing life’s complexities and giving you more time to focus on what matters to you. It’ll be an advocate for you in many of life’s most important moments. It’ll accompany you to that doctor’s appointment, take notes and follow up at the right time. It’ll share the load of planning and preparing for your child’s birthday party. And it’ll be there at the end of the day to help you think through a tricky life decision.

Some people worry that AI will diminish what makes us unique as humans. My life’s work has been to ensure it does precisely the opposite. We choose what we create. This is something we must do together. Our task is to ensure AI always enriches people’s lives and strengthens our bonds with others, while supporting our uniqueness and endlessly complex humanity.

This is a new era of technology that doesn’t just “solve problems,” it’s there to support you, teach you and help you. In this sense, Copilot really is different from that last wave of the web and mobile. This is the beginning of a fundamental shift in what’s possible for all of us. It’s a long journey that will take years. With our latest updates to Copilot, you are seeing only the first careful steps in this direction.

Patience and care with our deployments are at the very foundation of our approach. My commitment is to be accountable at every stage, work with you and listen to you. Respect and deep compassion for our users and for society is the core purpose behind everything we do. It comes first. This is a journey we promise to take together. I couldn’t be more excited to embark on it with you.

Mustafa Suleyman, Executive Vice President and CEO of Microsoft AI

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From the Copilot Team

Our refreshed Copilot is focused on delivering a more intuitive design with more digestible, speedy and fluent answers. It now adapts to you with a warm tone and a distinct style, providing not only information but encouragement, feedback and advice as you navigate life’s everyday challenges — no matter how big or small. For example, in addition to helping you plan that big trip, it can also offer tips on how to keep your composure when, say, the back of your seat is getting kicked by a small child.

And we’re adding advanced capabilities like Voice and Vision that make it both more useful and feel more natural. These modalities change how we connect with technology, enabling people to seamlessly reflect with, learn from and work with their Copilot companions.

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Copilot’s next phase

Today, we’re beginning to roll out the updated Copilot, including new and enhanced features:

Copilot Voice: We’re making it easier than ever to connect with your companion using Copilot Voice. This is the most intuitive and natural way to brainstorm on the go, ask a quick question or even just vent at the end of a tough day. Your companion will be personal to you, with four voice options to choose from.

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Copilot Daily: Copilot Daily helps you kick off your morning with a summary of news and weather, all read in your favorite Copilot Voice, with more options like reminders of what’s coming soon. It’s an antidote for that familiar feeling of information overload. Clean, simple and easy to digest. Copilot Daily will only pull from authorized content sources. We are working with partners such as Reuters, Axel Springer, Hearst Magazine and Financial Times, and plan to add more sources over time. We’ll also add additional personalization and controls in Copilot Daily over time.

Personalized Discover: Not sure where to start? Copilot Discover helps you get going, offering both a handy guide to its useful features and conversation starters, making jumping in simpler than ever. With your permission, these jumping off points are customized based on your interactions with other Microsoft services and will be further personalized over time according to your conversation history.

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Copilot in Microsoft Edge: Copilot has been built right into your Microsoft Edge browser, quickly helping answer questions, summarize page content, translate text or rewrite a sentence. Now it’s even easier to access Copilot directly from the Microsoft Edge browser by simply typing @copilot into the address bar.

Copilot Labs: Copilot Labs gives people the opportunity to test out our experimental features that are still in development. It’s a chance to give feedback and help shape the experiences we create. We have two features we’re bringing to Labs initially, Copilot Vision and Think Deeper.

Copilot Vision: This is a profoundly new way of interacting with a computer. Copilot Vision sees what you see and can talk to you about it in real time. It understands the web page you’re viewing, both text and images, and can answer questions about its content, suggest next steps and help you without disrupting your workflow. Imagine you’re trying to furnish a new apartment, Copilot Vision can help you search for furniture, find the right color palette, think through your options on everything from rugs to throws and even suggest ways of arranging what you’re looking at.

Safety and security are our top priority here:

• Copilot Vision sessions are entirely opt-in and ephemeral. None of the content Copilot Vision engages with is stored or used for training — the moment you end your session, data is permanently discarded.
• The experience won’t work on all websites because we’ve taken important steps to put boundaries on the types of websites Copilot Vision can engage. We’re starting with a limited list of popular websites to help ensure it’s a safe experience for everyone.
• Copilot Vision won’t work on paywalled and sensitive content for this preview. We’ve created it with both users’ and creators’ interests top of mind.
• There is no specific processing of the content of a website you are browsing, nor any AI training. Copilot Vision simply reads and interprets the images and text it sees on the page for the first time along with you.
• Before we launch broadly, we’ll continue to take feedback on all the above from early users in Copilot Labs, refine our safety measures and keep privacy and responsibility at the center of everything we do. Let us know what you think!

Think Deeper: Copilot can now reason through more complex questions. Think Deeper takes more time before responding, allowing Copilot to deliver detailed and step-by-step answers to challenging questions. We’ve designed it to be helpful for all kinds of practical and everyday challenges, like comparing two complex options side by side. Should I move to this city or that? What type of car best suits my needs? And so on. It’s an early Copilot Skill that’s still undergoing development, so we’ve placed it in our experimental Copilot Labs to test and get feedback.

We’re also making sure Copilot is easily available on all our platforms. On Copilot+ PCs and Windows we’re putting Copilot just a click away, unlocking new ways to interact with your PC. Check out today’s announcement on the latest with Copilot+ PCs and Windows.

Our work toward creating these kinds of experiences goes much further than just Copilot. Bing, Edge and MSN will also be more personalized, visual, cohesive and useful experiences than ever. For example, Bing generative search goes beyond simply finding an answer. Instead, it understands the search query, reviews millions of sources of information, dynamically matches content and generates search results on the fly.

While still under development, you’ll notice generative search rolling out across Bing starting today. To explore generative search in the U.S., simply search “Bing generative search” to choose from a selection of demo queries. We are also launching a new experience where users can more easily trigger Bing generative search for informational queries.

The refreshed Copilot is rolling out today on iOS and Android, through the Copilot web experience at copilot.microsoft.com and in Windows. We’re also excited to start rolling out Copilot to WhatsApp to help users there experience natural and engaging interactions with Copilot. Visit microsoft.com/whatsapp to give it a try.

Notes:

• Copilot Voice is initially available in English in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States. Copilot Voice will expand to more regions and languages soon.
• Copilot Daily is rolling out from today starting in the United States and the United Kingdom with more countries coming soon.
• Personalization in Copilot follows our Microsoft Privacy Statement, and people can opt out at any time in Settings. We’re still finalizing options for offering personalization to users in the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom.
• Copilot Vision is rolling out to Copilot Labs soon and will be available to a limited number of Copilot Pro subscribers in the United States.
• Think Deeper starts to roll out today through Copilot Labs to a limited number of Copilot Pro users in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Tags: AI, Bing, Bing generative search, Copilot, Copilot Daily, Copilot Discover, Copilot Labs, Copilot Pro, Copilot Vision, Copilot Voice, Copilot Windows, Copilot+ PCs, Microsoft AI, Microsoft Edge, MSN

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March 14, 2024

• Copilot Studio
• Excel
• Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365

Copilot is your everyday AI companion, meant to bring the power of generative AI to everyone across work and life. We’re expanding availability and purchase options for individuals and organizations and bringing new value to Copilot Pro subscribers.  

Since launching Copilot, it’s been exciting to see our customers bring AI into their lives—both personal and professional—creating stunning images, tackling their overflowing inboxes, jump-starting the writing process, catching up on missed meetings, and so much more. With Copilot, we’re committed to giving everyone the opportunity to supercharge their creativity and productivity. Available across devices, through web or through our Copilot mobile app on iOS or Android, it’s never been easier to get started with Microsoft Copilot.  

The expansion of Copilot Pro offerings for individuals

We’re making Copilot in the free Microsoft 365 web apps part of your Copilot Pro subscription—no additional Microsoft 365 subscription required. While a Microsoft 365 Personal or Family subscription is still required to unlock Copilot in the desktop apps for PC and Mac, we’re excited to bring Copilot to Word, Outlook, and more free web apps to additional Pro subscribers.¹ We’ll extend this benefit to our free mobile apps as well, including the Microsoft 365 app and Outlook for iOS and Android, in the coming months. 

MICROSOFT COPILOT GPT BUILDERLearn more 

In January, we launched a curated set of Copilot GPTs that can be your personal trainer, travel agent, and sous chef. And now, the ability to build and share custom Copilot GPTs with Microsoft Copilot GPT Builder is available to all Copilot Pro subscribers. Copilot GPT Builder lets you create a personalized Copilot meant to assist you with specific tasks, based on your interests. You can make a Copilot GPT that acts as your career counselor, or a study buddy that helps you to learn a new skill—the possibilities are limitless, and you can do all this from within Copilot. 

As part of our mission to empower every person on the planet to achieve more, we are making Copilot Pro available more broadly. Copilot Pro is now available in all 222 countries/regions where Copilot is available. We want all power users, creators, and anyone else to take their Copilot experience to the next level.  

Copilot Pro

For individuals, creators, and power users looking to take their Copilot experience to the next level.

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And to make it easier for anyone to get started and experience all the features and benefits of Copilot Pro, we’re offering a one-month free trial for those who install our Copilot mobile app on iOS or Android. 

With a Copilot Pro subscription, individuals gain the most advanced features and capabilities of Microsoft Copilot to supercharge their Copilot experience. This includes priority access to top-of-the-line models, AI capabilities in Microsoft 365 apps (a Microsoft 365 Personal or Family subscription is required to access Copilot in desktop apps), better image generation and editing capabilities, and access to Microsoft Copilot GPT Builder. 

Copilot for Microsoft 365: Available to organizations of all sizes

While Copilot Pro is our best experience for individuals, Copilot for Microsoft 365 is our best experience for organizations. To empower every organization to become AI-powered, we’re making Copilot for Microsoft 365 available to businesses of all types and sizes—including frontline worker plans. Customers that have Microsoft 365 F3 and F1, Office 365 E1, Business Basic, and more will be eligible to purchase Copilot for Microsoft 365 in the coming weeks.² That’s in addition to previously announced availability on Microsoft 365 E3 and E5, Office 365 E3 and E5, Business Standard, and Business Premium plans. 

Sign up for Copilot for Microsoft 365

Copilot for Microsoft 365 works across your entire universe of data at work and is integrated into the Microsoft 365 apps millions of people use every day—Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Microsoft Teams, and more—and the web. And with Copilot Studio, you can customize Copilot for Microsoft 365 using your business data or build your own copilot experiences. It’s built on the comprehensive approach of Microsoft to enterprise-grade security, privacy, identity, and compliance, and backed by the Microsoft Customer Copyright Commitment. 40% of the Fortune 100 have used Copilot for Microsoft 365 via our Early Access Program.³ That means tens of thousands of people at companies like Visa, BP, Honda, and Pfizer are already using Copilot to work in a new AI-powered way. As we said in January, we’ve seen faster adoption of Copilot for Microsoft 365 than our E3 or E5 suites. 

What’s next?

Individuals can learn more about Copilot Pro. For actionable guidance on how your organization can get started with Copilot for Microsoft 365 today, visit Copilot for Work. 

Download the Copilot App for a one-month free trial of Copilot Pro.

¹Copilot Pro subscribers can use Copilot in the web versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Outlook in the following languages: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, and Chinese Simplified. Those who have a separate Microsoft 365 Personal or Family subscription get the added benefit of using Copilot in the more fully featured desktop apps. Excel features are in English only and currently in preview. Copilot features in Outlook apply to accounts with @outlook.com, @hotmail.com, @live.com or @msn.com email addresses and are available in Outlook.com, Outlook built into Windows, and Outlook on Mac. 

²Additional details and a complete list of eligible SKUs will be available on learn.microsoft.com.

³Microsoft Fiscal Year 2024 First Quarter Earnings Conference Call, Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO and Amy Hood, EVP & CFO. October 24, 2023.

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Designer improvements with DALL-E-3 (Bing Image Creator)

In the ever-evolving realm of artificial intelligence, AI-powered tools have been created that help you boost your creativity and let your imagination run wild. AI has taken a giant leap forward with the integration of DALL-E 3, the latest iteration of this groundbreaking AI model. DALL-E 3, developed by OpenAI, has ushered in a new era of image generation and enhancement, and its integration into Designer is nothing short of remarkable. Learn about the latest enhancements in Designer with DALL-E 3 to find new ways to use this AI image generator in your daily life.The fusion of Designer and DALL-E 3Designer is a free AI-powered tool you can use to generate unique, customizable images with textual prompts. It’s built into Copilot and can be used to design visually appealing birthday cards, invitations, customized artwork, interior design ideas, creative presentations, and more. With the introduction of DALL-E 3, Designer has been supercharged to offer even more impressive results. With Designer, making AI-generated art is easy. Here are examples of Designer prompts, plus the AI art that Designer made:

Create a fine art drawing of two orange cats next to each other

Here’s what Designer made:

Credit: Designer in CopilotHere’s another prompt:

Create a realistic image of the mountains that’s black and white.

This is what Designer made:

Credit: Designer in CopilotHere’s another example of a prompt that was put in Designer:

Create a pastel image of hot air balloons over the ocean. 

This is what Designer made:

Credit: Designer in CopilotDALL-E 3 and Designer offer:Enhanced image qualityOne of the most noticeable improvements in Designer with DALL-E 3 in Copilot is the significant enhancement in image quality. The new model excels in creating free AI-generated images that are not only accurate representations of the textual prompts you give it, but they also exhibit a higher level of detail and realism. Unlike other AI-powered image generators that have a tendency to ignore words or descriptions provided in your prompt, this new version creates AI art more quickly and accurately by creating images that represent the text exactly. Whether you’re looking to create illustrations for a project or simply want to visualize your ideas, Designer with DALL-E 3 generates AI art that is closer to real life than ever before.Versatile creative optionsDALL-E 3 enhances your creativity in comparison to its previous versions. You can now experiment with broader text prompts to fine-tune your AI-generated images. Designer with DALL-E 3 in Copilot allows you to create intricate designs, abstract concepts, and more while adding text to your images. Whether you’re looking to create stills for your comic book or want to design a funny meme, Designer with DALL-E 3 can bring your ideas to life with greater precision and flexibility.Time-saving efficiencyWhen you need fast results, Designer with DALL-E 3 in Copilot makes it easy to generate visually stunning AI art quickly. Whether you’re crafting a timely social media post about a life event or you’re a student hoping to add images to a presentation, Designer can help you streamline your creative process.User-friendly interfaceWhile the technology behind Designer with DALL-E 3 in Copilot is cutting edge, the user interface is still the intuitive and easy-to-navigate design you’re used to. You don’t need to be an AI expert to harness the versatility of this AI-powered image generator and make your next masterpiece.Take a leap forward with your creativity using the enhanced Designer with DALL-E 3 in Copilot. Enjoy its improved image quality, versatile creative options, faster results, and user-friendly interface that help you bring your artistic ideas to life with greater ease and precision. Start creating AI-generated images using Designer with DALL-E 3 in Copilot today!

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February 22, 2024: The paragraph describing new features in Designer in Copilot has been removed. These features are currently only available for users signed in to Copilot with a personal account and we are exploring bringing these features to additional users in the future.

Since becoming generally available in December, Microsoft Copilot has been adopted by workers, faculty, and—most recently—higher ed students, as their everyday AI companion with commercial data protection. They’re using it to find better answers, maximize their efficiency, and instantly be more creative—all while helping to keep their organization’s data safe with commercial data protection.

The next wave of commercial data protection availability

At Ignite, we laid out our vision for commercial data protection in Copilot: to bring it to every Entra ID user at no additional cost. Commercial data protection enables organization to confidently equip their users with AI-powered chat. Using Copilot with commercial data protection is as simple as signing in to Copilot with an eligible work or school (Entra ID) account. With commercial data protection, prompts and responses are not saved, Microsoft has no eyes-on access to user or chat data, and that data is not used to train the underlying models. Users will know they’re protected because next to their profile icon they’ll see the “Protected” badge and above the chat input box they’ll see “Your personal and company data are protected.”

Since December, we’ve steadily marched towards fulfilling that vision and expanded commercial data protection eligibility to additional faculty users, and to students aged 18 and above, helping to unlock the power of generative AI at institutes of higher education.  

Today, we’re thrilled to share our next wave of availability. Starting in late February, users with the following Microsoft licenses will be eligible for commercial data protection in Copilot at no additional cost when they’re signed in with their work or school (Entra ID) accounts: 

• Microsoft 365 F1 
• Microsoft Office 365 E1/ E1 Plus/E3/E5/F3
• Microsoft 365 Business Basic 
• Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise 
• Microsoft 365 Apps for business 

This next wave of availability significantly expands the number of users eligible for commercial data protection in Copilot, paving the way for organizations and schools to be even more productive and creative. 

But we’re still not done—our vision is to provide commercial data protection in Copilot to every Entra ID user. As commercial data protection in Copilot becomes available to more users, we’ll provide notice through the Microsoft 365 admin center to help organizations prepare their users for AI-powered chat. 

To prepare, explore the Copilot adoption kit, which includes key training and resources. 

Copilot at work, school, or on the go 

Whether at a computer or on the go, Copilot is an invaluable tool to help you get more done. Over the last few months, we’ve brought commercial data protection in Copilot to more places so that workers, faculty, and students can easily access it whenever they need it. 

Available across all major web browsers, eligible users can visit copilot.microsoft.com and sign in with their work or school accounts to get access to AI-powered chat for the web with commercial data protection. But they can also find it in a host of other locations, whether that be chatting while searching the web using Copilot in Bing, conveniently opening it in the sidebar using Copilot in Microsoft Edge, or accessing it directly from their computer’s task bar using Copilot in Windows.¹

But using Copilot with commercial data protection is not limited to just computers—users can find it on mobile with the new Copilot app, which is available for both iOS and Android with Microsoft Intune support. The Copilot² app is the best way to have your everyday AI companion with you on the go, but it’s also available in the Bing, Edge, Microsoft Start, and Microsoft 365 mobile apps, or just by going to copilot.microsoft.com in a mobile browser. Wherever you are, Copilot is ready to help answer your questions or spark creativity. 

An updated look and feel for Copilot

The feedback for Copilot so far has been prolific and promising, and we’ve taken it to heart as we’ve updated the user experience. Last week, we rolled out a more streamlined look and feel in Copilot based on feedback, designed to help people more easily follow the flow of their chats. Users will get this updated look and feel when they use Copilot at home or when they use it at work or school with commercial data protection.

Your first steps on your protected AI journey 

We’re all barely a year into this AI journey and we have so much more to come in Copilot. If you’re interested in bringing the benefits of Copilot to your organization, don’t worry, we have you covered. Check out our adoption materials—now available in multiple languages—to jumpstart your organization on how to get the most out of Copilot.  

And if you’re looking for even more ways to elevate your users, check out Copilot for Microsoft 365. With Copilot for Microsoft 365, users can leverage AI with their organizational data, so they can ask to summarize a meeting’s key points in Microsoft Teams, generate stunning presentations in PowerPoint, or quickly analyze and visualize data in Excel.  

Thanks for coming on this journey with us—we can’t wait to see what you can do with your everyday AI companion.  

¹ Copilot in Windows (in preview) is available in select global markets and will be rolled out to additional markets over time. Learn more. Copilot in Windows 10 functionality is limited and has specific system requirements. 

² Download the Microsoft Copilot AI Mobile App | Copilot: Feature availability and functionality may vary by device type, market, and browser version. 

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Unlock the power of Copilot on any device

No matter the mobile device, you can download the Copilot mobile app for free now. Copilot also works seamlessly on Microsoft Edge, Chrome, Firefox, and Safari browsers.

This wave of innovation and accessibility coincides with a powerful new Super Bowl commercial—Microsoft’s first in four years. It showcases Copilot’s transformative impact through inspiring “watch me” moments. These real-world stories highlight the potential to turn ideas into realities—for anyone—from developing business plans to creating visual content to learning something brand new. The ad emphasizes how Copilot unlocks new possibilities for people with a prompt that’s just a sentence or two.

Copilot mobile app

Your Copilot chats and queries can now follow you from your phone to your PC seamlessly. Plus, the mobile app is just as powerful as the desktop version, packed with ChatGPT 4, DALL-E 3 for conjuring up inventive images, and even lets you use photos from your phone in your chats. Cool, right? Grab it here and take Copilot for a spin on your phone or tablet today.

Copilot in the Microsoft 365 mobile app

We’re also adding Copilot to the Microsoft 365 mobile app for Android and iOS for individuals with a Microsoft account. This new feature enables access to Copilot right inside the app and effortless export of content you create to a Word or PDF document. Score! Update your Microsoft 365 mobile app or download it now to take advantage of newly integrated Copilot capabilities.

Designer in Copilot

Now, you can do more than simply create images with AI; you can tweak and play around with them right there in Copilot.¹ Imagine wanting to make an element stand out with a splash of color, blur out the background to keep all eyes on your main subject, or even switch up the vibe with a pixel art effect. Copilot has all these tricks up its sleeve—and all free. It’s a total game-changer. So, dive in and keep your creative flow going uninterrupted. Download the Copilot mobile app, and start experimenting with Designer in Copilot today.

Copilot has already empowered online users with more creative control and efficiency—5 billion chats and 5 billion images, to be exact—bridging the gap between imagination and execution; with the mobile app, it’s set to fuel even more. This evolution not only underscores Microsoft’s vision for AI, but also its commitment to making sophisticated technology universally accessible, enabling every individual and organization to excel in their own ways. Kick things off with your everyday AI companion now: download the Copilot mobile app.[1] Available in English in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, India, and New Zealand.

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As we approach Super Bowl weekend, we’re thrilled to be a part of the festivities for the first time in four years. This year, we’re proud to celebrate the transformative power of AI and Microsoft Copilot, showcasing peoples’ “watch me” moments with Copilot enabling people to do things previously unattainable. With a simple sentence or two, you will see a budding entrepreneur turn a fledgling idea for a new product into an actionable business plan, a filmmaker’s concept into a rich set of storyboards, and a fantasy football player’s team come to life with a mascot image they can edit inline.

Coincident with the launch of our Super Bowl ad, we are also launching a significant new update to our Microsoft Copilot experience on copilot.microsoft.com and our Copilot app on iOS and Android app stores.  Today when you visit Copilot, you will see a more streamlined look and feel designed to help you bring your ideas to life and more easily gain understanding about the world. We have introduced a cleaner, sleeker look and feel for answers and a fun new carousel of suggested prompts to showcase the power of Copilot.

Today marks exactly one year since our entry into AI-powered experiences for people with Bing Chat. In that year we have learned so many new things and seen the use of our Copilot experiences explode with over 5 billion chats and 5 billion images created to date which have led to sustained growth in Edge and Bing share. Now with Copilot as our singular experience for people looking to get more out of AI creation, we are today introducing further image creation capabilities.

With Designer in Copilot, you can go beyond just creating images to now customize your generated images with inline editing right inside Copilot¹, keeping you in the flow of your chat. Whether you want to highlight an object to make it pop with enhanced color, blur the background of your image to make your subject shine, or even reimagine your image with a different effect like pixel art,² Copilot has you covered, all for free.  If you’re a Copilot Pro subscriber, in addition to the above, you can also now easily resize and regenerate images between square and landscape without leaving chat. Lastly, we will soon roll out our new Designer GPT inside Copilot, which offers an immersive, dedicated canvas inside of Copilot where you can visualize your ideas.

Copilot is free to use and works on Microsoft Edge, Chrome, Firefox and Safari. Or download the Copilot mobile app on iOS or Android.

AI is the defining technology of our time. Microsoft’s advancements in AI align with our company mission to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. With Copilot, we’re democratizing our breakthroughs in AI to help make the promise of AI real for everyone.

¹Available in English in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, India and New Zealand.

²15 daily boosts included in Copilot, 100 daily boosts with a Copilot Pro subscription to be used for creative needs, faster image generation, and more detailed images.

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As we kick off a new year, we’re thrilled to see people increasingly using and loving Microsoft Copilot for work and life. Our goal is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more by bringing Copilot, the everyday AI companion, to millions of people around the world. We have reached another milestone in this mission with more than 5 billion chats and more than 5 billion images to date. As Copilot continues to earn preference and usage, we’re receiving valuable feedback on how to improve. Two examples: First, there are a set of Copilot power users like creators, researchers, programmers and others who want more rapid access to the very latest we have to offer. And second, our Microsoft 365 customers want access to Copilot in the Microsoft 365 apps for personal use.

To help address those needs, today we’re delighted to announce more options for power users, creators and anyone looking to take their Copilot experience to the next level. This begins with the introduction of Copilot Pro, a new premium subscription for individuals that provides a higher tier of service for AI capabilities, brings Copilot AI capabilities to Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscribers, and new capabilities, such as the ability to create Copilot GPTs. We are also announcing the general availability of our Copilot app for iOS and Android phones. Finally, we’re excited to bring Copilot for Microsoft 365 to more commercial customers by expanding the availability to businesses of all sizes, including small- and medium-sized businesses, starting today.

Introducing Copilot Pro: Supercharge your creativity and productivity

Today we’re announcing the availability of Copilot Pro, a new subscription that delivers the most advanced features and capabilities of Microsoft Copilot to individuals looking to supercharge their Copilot experience. Whether you need advanced help with writing, coding, designing, researching or learning, Copilot Pro brings greater performance, productivity and creativity.

Copilot Pro provides:

1. 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.

2. Access to Copilot in Word, Excel[i], PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote on PC, Mac and iPad for Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscribers.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.

You can subscribe to Copilot Pro today for $20 per month/per user.

Expanding Copilot for Microsoft 365 to businesses of all sizes

While Copilot Pro is our best experience for individuals, Copilot for Microsoft 365 is our best experience for organizations. Copilot for Microsoft 365 became generally available for enterprises in November. As we said earlier this year, 40% of the Fortune 100 participated in our Early Access Program, and since GA for enterprise, customers like Visa, BP, Honda, Pfizer, and partners like Accenture, KPMG and PwC are already using Copilot — which means thousands of people across industries and sectors have started working in new ways, with an AI-powered copilot at their side. Today we are excited to announce that Copilot for Microsoft 365 is now available for organizations of all sizes — with no seat minimum. We are also enabling our partners to help every business become AI-powered.

Today’s updates include:

1. 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.
2. We’re 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).
3. Commercial customers can now purchase Copilot for Microsoft 365 through our amazing network of Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider partners.
4. Last month, we also announced eligibility of Copilot for Microsoft 365 for education faculty and staff.

Copilot for Microsoft 365 is even more powerful for organizations because it works across your entire universe of data at work — including emails, meetings, chats, documents and more, plus the web. With natural language prompts like “Tell my team how we updated the product strategy,” Copilot can generate a status update based on the morning’s meetings, emails and chat threads. Copilot is also integrated into the apps millions of people use every day, including Microsoft Teams (which is not available with Copilot Pro). Copilot jump-starts your creativity in Word, analyzes data in Excel, designs presentations in PowerPoint, triages your Outlook inbox, summarizes meetings in Teams – whether you attended or not – and so much more. Backed by enterprise-grade security, privacy, and compliance, and Microsoft’s Customer Copyright Commitment, we can’t wait to see how businesses of all sizes achieve more using AI. Learn more on the Microsoft 365 blog.

Introducing new features in Copilot

As we expand the availability of Copilot to even more people, we continue to offer a great free experience for anyone interested in exploring how Copilot can transform productivity and creativity using AI. Today we’re excited to share additional updates to Copilot. You can get started by visiting copilot.microsoft.com.

1. Copilot GPTs – Today we’re announcing Copilot GPTs. Copilot GPTs let you customize 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 we get closer to availability.
2. 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.
3. Copilot in the Microsoft 365 mobile app – We’re also 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.

With today’s announcements, we continue to bring Copilot to more customers with more options that work for them. Whether you’re looking to get started with Copilot for free, want to supercharge your Copilot experience with Copilot Pro or are an SMB or Enterprise customer looking to increase your productivity in new ways with Copilot for Microsoft 365, there’s a Copilot experience for everyone.

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Copilot Pro subscribers can use Microsoft Copilot Pro in the web apps (Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Excel) without a separate Microsoft 365 subscription. 

Tip: If you’re looking for where to purchase a Copilot Pro subscription go to this page.

To learn more about Microsoft Copilot Pro, select any headline below, and it will open to display more info:

How can I access Copilot Pro?

You can access Copilot Pro via the Copilot app on the web, and in select Microsoft 365 apps on Windows, macOS, and iPad. Support for iOS and Android will be coming soon.

Why don’t I see Copilot in my Microsoft 365 apps?

Copilot Pro subscribers can use Copilot in the web apps (Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Excel) without a separate Microsoft 365 subscription.  

If you also have a subscription to Microsoft 365 Personal or Microsoft 365 Family, you will have Copilot in the Windows or Mac versions of Word, Excel (Preview), PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote. 

If you have those subscriptions and aren’t seeing Copilot in your Microsoft 365 apps:

• You may need to refresh your Microsoft 365 apps.
• Ensure you are logged into your Microsoft 365 app with the same Microsoft account that is subscribed to both Microsoft 365 and Copilot Pro.

On Windows, open any Microsoft 365 app and go to File > Account to see what account you’re signed in with, and switch to a different account if necessary.

On macOS, the account you’re signed in with appears near the top left of the File > Open window. On OneNote it appears at the bottom left corner of the screen.

How does Copilot Pro create images faster? 

With Microsoft Designer you get 15 free boosts per day to create images faster. When you subscribe to Copilot Pro that number goes to 100 per day. After you’ve used your boosts for the day you can continue to create images, it’ll just be a little slower. Learn more about Microsoft Designer

How does Copilot use my data in Microsoft 365 apps?

To learn more about how Copilot uses your data in Microsoft 365 apps, see Copilot Pro: Microsoft 365 apps and your privacy.

Also, review your privacy settings for your Microsoft 365 apps.  Those settings can affect the availability of Copilot features. For more information, see How your privacy settings affect the availability of Copilot features.

Are there any resources to help me learn about Copilot prompts or how to write my own?

Absolutely. Copilot Pro subscribers can access Copilot Lab to see a large (and growing) library of suggested prompts and tips for being even more successful with Copilot.

Next step

Go to Get started with Microsoft Copilot Pro to learn more about what Copilot Pro can do and how to get started.

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