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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The more we listen to people who use our experiences, the more we know how transformative this revolution is, but we also understand that it requires careful and deliberate steps forward. We want to harness the full capabilities of AI Copilots to provide the most useful and rich experiences for users but do so in the safest ways we can. We want to balance both pioneering features and a deep sense of responsibility.  

That’s why we are rolling out Copilot Labs. Before releasing our most advanced tools to all users, we are trialing them for a small subset to gather feedback, learn, and then applying these lessons back into the product – making them at once, we hope, better and safer. Available to Copilot Pro users, think of it as offering a glimpse into “work-in-progress” projects just around the corner.  

The first feature available in Copilot Labs is Think Deeper which gives Copilot the ability to reason through more complex problems. Using the very latest reasoning models, it can help with anything from solving tough math problems to weighing up the costs of managing home projects. Think Deeper can take more time before responding, allowing Copilot to deliver detailed, step-by-step answers to challenging questions. Think Deeper begins rolling out today to a limited number of Copilot Pro users in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States. 

Next up: Copilot Vision.  

A real limitation of the Copilot experience has been that it hasn’t understood what you’re doing or what you’re looking at it. Language is, of course, a powerful means of communication, but there’s so much context to any task or interaction that lies far beyond what you can say. One way of addressing this is by giving you the option to let Copilot see what you see. That’s what we are trialing on a limited basis in Copilot Labs with Copilot Vision.  

Here your Copilot sits within Microsoft Edge. If you want it to, it can understand the page you’re viewing and answer questions about its content. It can suggest next steps, answer questions, help navigate whatever it is you want to do and assist with tasks. All the while you simply speak it to in natural language. It’s a new feature that takes the ease and practical use of Copilot to a new level.  

In building this new feature, we’ve put the interests of users’ and creators’ at the heart of everything. It’s an entirely opt-in feature, only getting invoked when you decide it might be helpful. You decide strictly when, how and if you want to use it. In this preview version absolutely none of the content – audio, images, text, your conversation with Copilot – will be stored or used for training. In fact, as soon as you close the feature it gets permanently discarded.  

We are currently blocking the service on paywalls and sensitive content, limiting use to just a pre-approved list of websites in the first instance. These are popular sites used by a broad swathe of the population, and when Vision interacts with them it respects their machine-readable controls on AI. Over time we look to add more, always with safety and responsibility firmly in mind. We are also producing Vision with a view to creating a new driver of traffic to websites. When it comes to a paywalled site, Copilot Vision simply won’t comment. Copilot Vision is also not engaging directly with the web; it’s there to answer questions rather than take actions.  

Have a look at the in-depth Q&A, to see more about safeguards that are woven throughout. In building Copilot Vision, and Copilot Labs more widely, we’ve kept the interests of users’ and creators’ top of mind to balance utility and responsibility. But we will be listening carefully to what you think about this experimental feature. At first only a subset of Pro users in the United States will have access. We hope you find it useful and look forward to hearing what you think!  

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We’re energized by this feedback and are committed to delivering incredible new AI experiences for everyone. Fundamental to this process is our full commitment to earning your trust through transparency, accountability, and user control. That’s why we’re sharing some upcoming changes in how we will use consumer data, and our approach to ensuring our users are always in control.  

• We will soon start using consumer data from Copilot, Bing, and Microsoft Start (MSN) (including interactions with advertisements) to help train the generative AI models in Copilot. We are making this change as real-world consumer interactions provide greater breadth and diversity in training data. We believe this will help us build more inclusive, relevant products, and improve the experience for all users. For example, our AI models can learn from an aggregated set of thumbs up/thumbs down selections to provide better, more useful responses in the future. Our AI models can learn colloquial phrases or local references from Copilot conversations. Our AI models can also learn from Microsoft advertising segments what, broadly, is most interesting and compelling to consumers, helping the models deliver more relevant content in the future. 

• We will also make it simple for consumers to opt-out of their data being used for training, with clear notices displayed in Copilot, Bing, and Microsoft Start. We will start providing these opt-out controls in October, and we won’t begin training our AI models on this data until at least 15 days after we notify consumers that the opt-out controls are available.  

In short, we will always ask first, and we’ll always put you in control. 

These changes will only apply to consumers who are signed into their Microsoft Account. Consumers will retain existing controls over their data, and there are no changes to the existing options to manage how their data is used to personalize Microsoft services for them. In addition, this change only applies to how we will start training our generative AI models in Copilot, and does not change existing uses of consumer data as outlined in the Microsoft Privacy Statement. 

We will gradually roll this out in different markets to ensure we get this right for consumers and to comply with privacy laws around the world. For example, we will not offer this setting or conduct training on consumer data from the European Economic Area (EEA) until further notice. To learn more, please see our FAQ here. 

When we begin training, we will continue to adhere to the following data protection commitments: 

• Your data will not be used to identify you: Before training these AI models, we will remove information that may identify you, such as names, phone numbers, device or account identifiers, sensitive personal data, physical addresses, and email addresses. 

• Your data will be kept private: Your data remains private when using our services and is not disclosed without your permission. Generative AI models do not store training data or return it to provide a response, and instead are designed to generate new content. We continuously evaluate our models for privacy and safety, including conducting testing and building filters that screen out previously published or used material. We will protect your personal data as explained in the Microsoft Privacy Statement and in compliance with privacy laws around the world. 

• Data from minors will not be used for training: We will only train our generative AI models on data from consumers who tell us they are 18 years or older. 

There are no changes to how Microsoft manages commercial customers’ data. More information about how we manage commercial customer data can be found here. 

We are fully committed to earning your trust. We will remain steadfast in protecting your data and will be open about what we do with it, and why. If we plan for additional changes to how we use consumer data for training our generative AI models in Copilot, we will share that transparently and will ensure there remains an ability for consumers to stay in control and choose whether to allow that.  

Once again, we will always ask first, and we’ll always put you in control. 

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Just this week we announced our strategic partnership with The Coca-Cola Company to accelerate AI Transformation enterprise-wide as well as across its global network of independent bottlers, and shared news of our partnership with Cognizant to drive enterprise AI adoption for millions of users. We are expanding our work with G42 to accelerate responsible AI innovation in the United Arab Emirates and beyond while accelerating digital transformation securely across the Middle East, Central Asia and Africa with expanded access to services and technologies. We are also building on our relationship with Cloud Software Group to bring joint cloud solutions and generative AI capabilities to more than 100 million people.

We continue to shape the future of industry alongside our customers to help them differentiate their businesses. At CES, we showcased how our customers and partners are innovating across the automotive and mobility industry with generative AI to solve deep business problems and create new opportunities, and revealed the Copilot key for Windows 11 PCs. At NRF, we shared new copilot templates to help retailers incorporate generative AI across the shopper journey while enhancing the experience for store associates and making AI implementation more accessible. Just recently at HIMSS, we announced Microsoft’s role as the technology enabling partner for the Trustworthy & Responsible AI Network, a consortium of healthcare leaders aimed at operationalizing responsible AI principles to improve the quality, safety and trustworthiness of AI in healthcare.

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Air India harnesses AI for operational excellence with Copilot for Microsoft 365.
Enabling pragmatic AI innovation with Copilot capabilities to deliver immediate value
Companies like Amadeus, AAMI, TotalEnergies and Cushman & Wakefield are leveraging Copilot for Microsoft 365 to enrich customer interactions and advance high-priority projects. Visa employees are transforming how they work to better serve the needs of their clients and Banca Transilvania is boosting efficiency and innovation while delivering the highest quality of customer service. Emirates NBD engineers are solving their most complex problems while remaining within their development environments, and 96% of early adopters at CommBank have shared that Copilot is making them more productive. Colombia-based Cenit is experiencing rapid adoption of Copilot to empower employees to be more creative, productive and collaborative. U.K.-based law firm Clifford Chance is helping employees automate daily tasks like meeting notes, email drafts and inbox management with AI and natural language processing, while Air India built a plugin to gain real-time access to flight and operations data to empower better decision-making.

With Copilot in Dynamics 365 Customer Insights, Northrop & Johnson achieved a 250% increase in charter bookings while helping team members save time, boost productivity and enrich the quality of engagement with their customers. Using Power Platform and Microsoft Copilot Studio, Cineplex is saving employees over 30,000 hours annually in manual processing times and reducing ticket refund handling time from 15 minutes to under a minute. Northern Trust is using Microsoft Copilot for Service to modernize its client relations organization, streamline employee processes and elevate the client experience. Teams at EPAM Systems are leveraging Microsoft Copilot for Sales to improve sales processes and better support its business strategies, while freeing up time to spend with customers.

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Blue Yonder optimizes supply chain orchestration with Azure OpenAI Service.
Building AI design patterns that bend the curve on innovation and intelligently reason over data to solve business challenges
Icertis is leveraging Azure OpenAI Service and its proprietary AI models in conjunction with its extensive data lake to uncover cost savings, enhance compliance and reduce risk across millions of legal contracts. Insurance company FWD Group is using the service to enhance customer experiences and operations across its lines of business, and Singapore-based CapitaLand Investment has saved 1 million Singapore dollars and 10,000 work hours per year with data-driven AI models. With Azure OpenAI Service as the secure foundation for its supply chain platform, Blue Yonder is harnessing AI and machine learning to provide real-time decision making for businesses across 78 countries. Homes & Villas by Marriott Bonvoy and Publicis Sapient are making it easier for travelers to find the right vacation homes through natural language search powered by large language models within Azure OpenAI Service, and Miral is curating some of the most sought-after leisure, entertainment and tourism activities with a 24/7 AI-powered concierge. Using several AI models, Australian retailer Coles developed an edge computing platform that makes 1.6 billion informed predictions each day so customers can find exactly what they are looking for across its 850 stores.

With Microsoft Fabric, Melbourne Airport is synchronizing flight bookings and ground transportation data to project demand while maintaining efficiency, reliability and safety of its operations. Rail freight operator Aurizon is deriving better data insights from 400 sensor-equipped locomotives to enhance cost efficiency, scalability and predictive maintenance. Seair Exim Solutions is increasing export-import trade data ingestion speeds by 90% to empower its global shipping industry customers with improved insights more quickly with help from Mandelbulb Technologies, while Dener Motorsport is using Fabric and real-time analytics to help automotive engineers detect and resolve car issues within minutes — down from nearly half an hour. By hosting its data within Azure Kubernetes, Windstream is improving its custom GPT platform to help employees find the information they need faster across 100,000 indexed documents. To promote financial inclusion, Trusting Social focused on a strong data foundation paired with AI services to enable the development and deployment of solutions that assist more than 130 financial institutions across Asia. Sasfin Bank worked with Legal Interact to implement a unified document management system to analyze contract clauses and streamline legal operations and workflows using Azure Cognitive Services and Azure SQL. TomTom has deployed GitHub Copilot to its developers, resulting in 85% of the company’s engineers feeling more productive and 70% saying it enables them to focus on more satisfying work. Meesho — a leading online marketplace in India — is using a generative AI chat agent to increase inquiry resolution by 40% and customer satisfaction by 25%, while leveraging GitHub Copilot to streamline code delivery and testing for its 200+ developers.

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Grupo Bimbo bakes in end-to-end data security and compliance with Microsoft Purview.
Strengthening cybersecurity foundations with industry-leading cloud and responsible AI solutions
Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative (SFI) reflects our commitment to continually advancing the built-in security of our products and services. We recently announced the general availability of Microsoft Copilot for Security — the industry’s first generative AI solution designed to help security and IT professionals do their work with greater speed and accuracy. In our latest Copilot for Security economic study, security analysts using the Copilot were 22% faster and 7% more accurate across all tasks, with 97% saying they want to use it again. Our ability to offer this solution to customers is bolstered by more than 100 partners such as Capgemini, Cisco and Darktrace who are committed to working with us to deliver trusted, responsible AI solutions. In collaboration with TC1 Labs, Pacifico Seguros has become the first company in Latin America to implement Copilot for Security with a Zero Trust approach, strengthening its security defenses and confidently preparing the company for future security challenges. Security professionals at Enverus are saving hours per day on low-value tasks with Copilot, allowing them to focus on strategic work and help elevate the impact of their security team. Wipro is using the solution to help employees save time and act quickly to improve outcomes across its business.

Using the Microsoft Defender security stack, Del Monte Foods increased security visibility and coverage across its IT environment, reducing security risks by 50% and improving its security response and remediation capabilities. To streamline its security operations, Jones Lang LaSalle implemented Microsoft Defender for Endpoint with help from Tanium, reducing cybersecurity spending by 20% and enhancing protection for nearly 90,000 endpoints. Türkiye-based Demirören has adopted a Zero Trust security model by unifying its security solutions to protect essential business data and enhance threat detection and response capabilities. Paytronix, a provider of customized digital experiences for restaurant and convenience store guests, improved its security profile by seamlessly migrating data for 250 million user accounts to Azure without interruption. The Audi Group’s IT department is simplifying endpoint management and safeguarding its hybrid workforce across 12 countries with enhanced security using Microsoft Intune. To ensure robust data protection and seamless access for authorized personnel, SLT-MOBITEL is using Microsoft’s AI-powered security products to fortify end-user devices and services while simplifying information security and compliance. Oregon State University and Grupo Bimbo are utilizing Microsoft data security solutions to safeguard their environments and confidently prepare for their continued adoption and deployment of AI.

Embracing AI Transformation has become a priority for organizations around the world seeking to unlock AI opportunities. Whether helping our customers adopt and scale AI with our Copilot capabilities or building unique AI strategies leveraging our open platform and partner ecosystem, we are humbled to work with you to drive pragmatic business outcomes and differentiated industry leadership. Our commitment to your success is unwavering. We will continue building upon our trusted relationships and our focus on responsibility and security so you can move forward with confidence in your AI journey. I remain inspired by what we have done — and what we will do — to help our customers and partners achieve more.

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• Image prompting 101
• Modify and refine AI image prompts
• AI art genres and styles

Everything you need to get started

Use this guide to explore key topics, with easy steps and tips for creating better prompts to get better images.

Image Prompting 101

Learn how to write a great AI image prompt using Designer in Copilot and how to structure and format them to generate pictures that align with your inner visions.

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AI art genres & styles

From creating hyper-realistic photography to avant-garde oil paintings, learn about the different AI-generated art styles and genres you can achieve using an AI image generator like Designer in Copilot.

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Modify and refine AI image prompts

So you’ve written a prompt and created an image. Now what? Maybe you want to improve image quality, change the color of the image, or remove an object from the picture. Whatever it is, you know you want to change or enhance your result. Here’s how you can do that by using Designer in Copilot.

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Turning words into images

Designer in Copilot uses open AI models to produce original images from natural language descriptions. These models are a type of generative artificial intelligence that let you make personalized art just by asking for what you want.

For instance, Designer can illustrate “a cozy, cushioned armchair in the shape of an avocado,” or “a colorful cute snail made of a wooden harp,” or “a short giraffe wearing a green checkered suit.”

In this guide, we’ll show you how to write prompts for text-to-image models like Designer, a generative AI model built into Copilot.

To start creating your own beautiful art in seconds…

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March 14, 2024

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• 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. 

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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.  

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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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Thanks to advancements in technology, art has evolved in incredible ways. In addition to traditional art supplies, you can use AI-powered tools like Designer to bring your creativity to life. Learn what Designer is, how to access it, and how you can use this AI art generator to effortlessly create stunning digital art.

What is Designer?

Designer is an AI art generator built into Copilot, an AI-powered tool where you can create images, find answers to complex questions, and summarize vast amounts of information all in one place.

What can Designer do?

Designer allows you to create digital art based on textual, descriptive prompts. Its AI capabilities can discern details like object characteristics, facial expressions, backgrounds, and even artistic styles. When you provide a description of the image you’d like to see, Designer will work its magic and transform your idea into visually captivating artwork.

Whether you’re an experienced artist or a novice, this AI art generator helps you quickly translate your thoughts into visual art. Create images in a variety of styles, from realism to abstract or comic book style to character animations. If there’s a person, animal, or object in your idea, describe its visual characteristics, facial expressions, and emotions. Play with different backgrounds and scenery to really make your art pop. This AI image generator can help you produce your dream artwork in seconds.

How to access Designer

It’s easy to get started with Designer. To make digital art using this AI art generator, follow these steps:

1. Go to Copilot, or open Microsoft Edge and select the Copilot icon in the sidebar.
2. Enter your prompt in the search box.
3. If you want to change the generated image, provide additional context and details.

It’s really that simple!

Example Designer prompts

If you want to see what Designer can do, you might start with one of these prompts:

Credit: Designer in Copilot

• Create a realistic portrait: “Create a lifelike portrait of a serene woman with curly red hair, wearing a blue silk gown, and standing in front of a tranquil rose garden.”
• Generate comic book sketches: “Generate a dynamic comic book scene featuring a heroic figure in a red and blue superhero costume while they’re flying through the night sky with the Chicago skyline in the background.”
• Create fantasy art: “Produce an abstract piece of art that’s reminiscent of a dream, using swirling neon colors, floating orbs, and a sense of weightlessness.”
• Illustrate a post-apocalyptic world: “Create a gritty and desolate post-apocalyptic landscape featuring a lone wanderer in tattered clothing, walking through a barren wasteland with remnants of a ruined city in the background, bathed in the eerie light of a setting sun.”

Whether you’re an aspiring artist or a pro who wants to build their digital art portfolio, Designer is a game-changing tool for creatives of all levels. Use the power of AI to experiment with your creative side and bring your imagination to life with just a few keystrokes. Try Designer to leap into the world of digital art and let your creativity soar.

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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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