Integrate your shopping experience with Copilot to help your brand gain visibility, acquire more customers and generate sales, all from a convenient centralized location with AI support at every step. Once you’re in the Copilot Merchant Program you can also share key product specifications with us, ensuring we have up-to-date details on all your items, so that they are suggested to customers properly.  

To get started, sign-up via the Copilot Merchant Interest Form located here. 

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Missed Microsoft’s 50^th Anniversary event? We’ve got you covered! 

From Copilot Vision to Deep Research, see everything announced at our 50^th Anniversary event coming soon to Copilot via the Microsoft Blog. 

Copilot Labs, now available to all users 

At Copilot Labs you can experience Copilot’s most experimental features before they are released to the public. Now available to all users, keep an eye out for new releases on the official Copilot Labs homepage. 

Enhanced shopping experience 

Users in the U.S. can now shop with ease, directly on Copilot. Dive deeper into a product’s details via the “View details” button or click anywhere on the card to see:

• Additional product images
• Review summary 
• Pros and cons 
• Product specifications 
• Product description 

Copilot also includes a variety of capabilities designed to help you find what you’re looking for and streamline your shopping experience. These capabilities include: 

Filter Interactions: View and select desired options from the product page if an item has multiple colors, sizes, or other attributes. 

Buying Options: Alternative retailer offers are listed on product pages, allowing users to compare prices quickly. 

Price Insights: Show high, low, current, and average prices for a product from the last 13 months. 

Easier Checkout: For select retailers like eBay, Walmart, and Best Buy, users can now checkout with select items from within Copilot. 

Recipes and Instacart 

Getting all your ingredients ready just got even easier on Copilot. With Recipe cards, you can now directly purchase ingredients in Copilot. Simply select “Shop Ingredients on Instacart” while using Copilot on iOS. 

Two new voices available 

Birch and Rain voices are now available to try on Copilot. Check them out!

Press to talk in Copilot for MacOS 

A long press of Option + Space will now activate the Press to Talk feature on your macOS device.  Just press the keys and start talking with Copilot! 
 
A short press of Option + Space in macOS still launches the Copilot composer at any time. The composer on macOS has also been improved to remain small and not disrupt your workflow when you need to interact with Copilot.    
 
You can change the keyboard shortcut that activates these features under Settings > Keyboard shortcut. 

Introducing phone connection 

With phone connection, Copilot on PC can now connect to your Android device, making it easier to stay on top of your day by setting alarms, creating reminders, sending and receiving messages, getting navigation help, and more.  

Ready to get started? Learn how to connect your phone here. 

Increased visuals in responses 

We’re continuing to enhance the visuals in Copilot’s responses. Weather Cards, Finance Cards, more Sports Cards (Baseball, Hockey, and Cricket), and short-form videos have been added. Please note: availability of new visuals may vary by surface.

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What does this mean? What does it look like? What does it do? Truth is, there’s no single answer that captures it. Because it’s going to look and feel a little different for each of us.

An AI companion is completely personal, built around individual needs, values and expectations. That’s why ultimately, there will be as many different Copilots as there are people using them. Today, we are embarking on the journey to take Copilot from an AI companion to your AI companion.

With your permission, Copilot will now remember what you talk about, so it learns your likes and dislikes and details about your life: the name of your dog, that tricky project at work, what keeps you motivated to stick to your new workout routine.

Copilot will understand you in the context of your life, and show up, on your terms, in the right way at the right time. This is far richer, more dynamic, supportive and emergent than any software we’ve seen before. It’s a new kind of relationship with technology, a new era.

Of course, we’re also focusing on the fundamentals: engaging personality, incredible search capability, custom-made answer cards, bespoke podcasts. With Deep Research you have a world-class researcher working alongside you. With Shopping, a trusted, impartial partner, looking out for the best products and deals. With Actions, let Copilot shoulder some of the burden, from scoring the gig tickets to sorting the ride home. Our new Windows app means your computer finally works on your behalf. And now with Copilot Vision on Mobile, Copilot can see what you see, responding in real time to create a shared understanding of your world.

But the important point is that throughout Copilot is more than an AI, it’s yours. It remembers not just what you said, but who you are. Copilot helps you stay organized, think clearly, learn more intuitively. It’s there when you need a quick factual answer, a long exploratory debate or when you fancy just downloading after a hard day.

Every day we hear the most incredible stories about the many and varied ways people enjoy Copilot. So, as we continue on our journey to create a Copilot for everyone, we’re focusing on one critical goal: to make it truly yours. Each will have its own unique style and blend of attributes that distinctly suit each and every one of us. All the while, we’ll stick to our core promise. You remain in control, you are the pilot and you make the calls and set the boundaries.

We can’t wait for you to discover your personal Copilot.

Mustafa Suleyman, Executive Vice President and CEO of Microsoft AI

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Today, we announced a set of new updates that represent the next chapter in our vision to deliver a true AI companion — helping make AI more useful by making it more personal.

Table of contents

1. Memory
2. Actions
3. Copilot Vision
4. Pages
5. Podcasts
6. Shopping
7. Deep Research
8. Copilot Search

Memory and Personalization

Memory is essential for creating a true AI companion. With Memory, Copilot can remember important details: your favorite food, the types of films you enjoy and your nephew’s birthday and his interests. As you interact with Copilot, it notes your preferences, building a richer user profile and offering tailored solutions, proactive suggestions and timely reminders. Copilot prioritizes security and privacy, giving you control through the user dashboard and the option to choose which types of information it remembers about you or to opt out entirely. You remain in control.

As we explore the full range of what true personalization means, we are experimenting with new ways for you to interact with your Copilot. For example, what if your Copilot had an appearance and you could shape and form it to be whatever you want? We’re early in this thinking but soon you’ll have the ability to personalize Copilot and interact with your AI companion in a fun way while it offers advice and support when you want it. You can strike up a conversation with Copilot and now have an entertaining appearance that’s unique to you.

Actions

Another key advancement that makes Copilot a helpful AI companion is its ability to now take action on your behalf. With Actions, Copilot can now partner with you to complete tasks behind the scenes. Use simple chat prompts to ask Copilot to book event tickets, grab dinner reservations or send a thoughtful gift to a friend and it will check that task off your list. Copilot Actions will work with most websites across the web, and we’re particularly excited to highlight our launch partners: 1-800-Flowers.com, Booking.com, Expedia, Kayak, OpenTable, Priceline, Tripadvisor, Skyscanner, Viator and Vrbo.

Copilot Vision

We introduced Vision in Copilot for the web late last year and now we’re bringing it to mobile and Windows.

• Copilot and your phone’s camera now enable an interactive experience with the real world, in real time. From the Copilot app on your phone, you can look around at your surroundings and request information, guidance or ideas. It can analyze both real-time video from the camera and photos stored on your camera roll. For example, use Vision to improve plant health by asking it to examine your plants and suggest actions, or to scan your office and provide tips on decoration. Vision on Mobile is available today in the Copilot app for iOS and Android.
• The new native Windows app will allow you to call upon Copilot while working across multiple applications, browser tabs or files. It will read the screen and interact with the content. You’ll be able to use Copilot to search, change settings, organize files and collaborate on projects without switching between files or apps. The Copilot app can be accessed by hitting Alt+Space or holding Alt+Space for two seconds to use voice commands. The native Copilot app for Windows is available today. Vision will be available first for Windows Insiders starting next week and will be rolled out more broadly afterwards.

Pages

Copilot now provides a way to organize your thoughts and content from chaos to calm. It takes all your scattered notes, content, research — whatever it is — and puts it in a canvas that Copilot organizes, simplifies and helps you with from your first rough draft to your very final edits. Pages lets you refine, iterate and keep the conversation going whenever you need it.

Podcasts

Copilot can now generate AI-powered podcasts that curate and deliver personalized audio content based on your interests. Podcasts give you an easy, engaging and different way to consume information with minimal effort. Copilot can create a personalized podcast to analyze and compare options like with a vacation plan or home purchase or you can provide content to Copilot like a study or specific web sites and Copilot will generate a podcast that helps explain the topic. While listening, you can continue to talk and interact with Copilot to learn more and keep the conversations going. It’s a daily audio solution that helps you solve tough problems, explore a new hobby or just enjoy an easy to digest solution to all that endless scrolling.

Shopping

Copilot is now your personal shopper: on your side, doing the research, building comparisons, offering advice. It lets you know about price drops and sales and will let you purchase directly from the app. Shopping with Copilot is the easy solution to find the products and services you love.

Deep Research

Deep Research is a new feature for Copilot that lets you conduct complex, multi-step research tasks more efficiently — shaving hours off the time it would normally take to complete. Copilot can find, analyze and combine information from online sources or large amounts of documents and images.

Copilot Search

Copilot Search in Bing transforms web search by bringing traditional and generative search together. It cross-checks information across multiple sites to deliver detailed, comprehensive responses directly in Bing, complete with helpful cited sources and suggestions for further exploration. You can learn more about Copilot Search here.

We’re beginning to roll out the initial versions of these new experiences starting today. We will continue to expand availability in the coming weeks and months, which will vary by platform, market and language as we work through the rollout process. We will continue to listen to feedback from customers, adjusting and refining these experiences over time.

If you haven’t tried Copilot yet, download the app for free today at the Microsoft Store or at app stores for iOS, Mac or Android, experience the best AI companion for Windows on a Copilot+ PC or use Copilot on the web at copilot.microsoft.com. Thank you for being on this journey with us and here’s to the next 50 years of Microsoft.

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For the week of March 19^th, 2025, here are the latest updates:  

Copilot Vision 

• Now available in Android devices for Pro subscribers in United States, Vision allows you to use your Android phone’s camera to get help from Copilot by sharing what you see and talking about it. 
• Access to Copilot Vision in Edge has expanded to all free users in the U.S. Copilot can browse alongside you and instantly scan, analyze, and offer insights based on what it sees on your webpage. 

Think Deeper, now on o3-mini (high)

Get answers to complex questions, even faster. Think Deeper’s reasoning model has been upgraded to OpenAI’s o3-mini (high). This means you’ll wait less to get answers.  The updated reasoning model gives Think Deeper additional flexibility when tackling complex problems and improves its overall speed when providing responses.

Think Deeper is available to all signed-in Copilot users, so give it a try next time you need that extra support.

Product price tracking, now available for all U.S. users

Stay on top of the best deals and prices for your favorite items. Simply ask Copilot about a product you’re shopping for, start tracking its price, and Copilot will give you alerts whenever a price drops or a deal has become available.  

Start a conversation with Copilot on GroupMe and Viber 

Now you can interact directly with Copilot inside both the GroupMe and Viber apps. In GroupMe, simply long press a message to activate Copilot and start your conversation. In Viber, you can send messages, upload images for analysis, and even generate images based on descriptions. Start chatting with Copilot today and experience seamless support and assistance in your conversations. 

Added visuals within responses

Copilot answers are becoming more visual! Now, Copilot can enhance responses with images or videos where appropriate. Additionally, new visual elements make it easier to discover great dining spots and stay updated on the latest basketball and soccer games, with more sports coming soon. These enhancements are currently available on desktop and will roll out to mobile in the coming weeks.  

Additional updates

Read aloud

Copilot can once again read aloud to you. Copilot can read aloud longer text responses at up to 1.5x speed or choose one of the voices to read aloud a poem or bedtime story to you or your kids.  

Added file upload support  

Copilot can help summarize and demystify documents, and now it can help you do the same for PowerPoint decks– just upload in Copilot and ask specific questions.  

Mac device context update 

Copilot for macOS is now better able to answer questions about how to use your Mac.  For example, ask Copilot “How do I take a screenshot?  Is there a shortcut key?” 

Keep your feedback coming! We love hearing from you.  

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The Copilot app is now available on MacOS

Now you can experience the full Copilot experience directly on MacOS. To download, visit the App Store on your Mac computer.

(Please note: the Copilot app is currently only available in the United States, India, Japan, Brazil, United Kingdom, Mexico, Germany, and Canada, with more areas to be announced.)

Copilot, now available on Viber 

Copilot can now be directly accessed within the Viber app. Enjoy everything Copilot has to offer from getting answers to asking for advice, generating images and more. 

Additional updates this week 

• You can now sign in to the Copilot for iOS app using your Apple ID. Previously, the Copilot for iOS app only supported sign-in with a Microsoft account. This will expand our MacOS app in the coming weeks.  

• File Upload: Support added for uploading files in tabular data formats, including XLSX, CSV, and JSON.  You can now upload any of these file types and ask Copilot questions about their contents. 

• Follow-up Suggestions Update: Copilot will now suggest follow-ups to keep the conversation going and help you explore. 

• Windows Device Context Update: improvements have been made to bolster Copilot’s context awareness across Windows devices. 

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Expanding Access 

Unlimited Voice for All: 
Speak naturally with Copilot Voice, now unlimited for all users in nearly every market where the Copilot app is available. You can now talk hands-free with your AI companion in over 40 languages.  

Think Deeper for Mobile & Free Users: 
Think Deeper now offers insights on mobile and for free users without usage limits, helping you excel—whether preparing for an interview, tackling complex coding challenges, solving intricate math problems, or planning major life decisions with deeper insights. 

Vision Expansion for Pro US Users: 
Pro users in the US now enjoy a contextual browsing experience. Copilot Vision, available exclusively on Microsoft Edge, acts as an AI companion tucked into your browser, ready to be your second set of eyes and sounding board on the web pages you explore. 

Empowering Communication 

Voice with Latest Information: 
Voice now comes with web retrieval—bringing in the latest information about the world to enrich its conversations, a top requested feature from users. 

Enhanced Voice Transcripts: 
Transcription of voice conversations captures your dialogue with Copilot, ensuring you never miss key details. Whether in a noisy environment or multitasking, easily revisit what you’ve talked about with Copilot. 

WhatsApp & Telegram Integration: 
Copilot is now fully integrated into WhatsApp and Telegram, streamlining conversations with AI-powered assistance. Easily share messages and audio, coordinate group chats, and get instant insights.  

Productivity Enhancements 

Refined Discover Layout & Expanded Sign-In Options: 
Our updated layout and flexible sign-in options save you time and maintain your daily momentum. 

PDF/Word Doc Upload: 
Upload PDFs and Word files directly to Copilot, with more file types on the way, making document handling a breeze for students and professionals alike. 

Page & Video Summarization: 
Extract key insights from web pages and videos instantly in Edge, allowing you to absorb important information and focus on what matters most. 

iPad Support & Side-by-Side View: 
Copilot now offers an optimized iPad experience with a resizable and movable multitasking view, allowing seamless side-by-side app usage. 

Copilot MacOS App: 
We’ve launched the Copilot app for macOS, now available in the App Store, delivering a seamless experience for Mac users. 

Looking Ahead 

From unlimited voice capabilities for all to deeper insights and broader platform integrations, these updates mark a significant step in simplifying and enriching your Copilot experience. Explore the latest features, give them a try, and share your feedback—your input drives our evolution. Here’s to a more seamless, empowered experience with Copilot by your side. 

¹Users may experience delays or interruptions during periods of high demand or if we detect security concerns, misuse or other violations of the Copilot Terms. 

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We are seeing a lot of excitement for Voice and Think Deeper and we know many of you have been hitting limits. This should help. And if you haven’t tried some of these experiences yet, there has never been a better time.

Use Voice to practice a few simple phrases in a new language to help you navigate when visiting a new country or meeting new people, tell Copilot about a job you’re applying for and your work experience and ask it to mock interview you, or get some hands-free cooking advice as you follow a new recipe step by step.

Think Deeper is helpful for tackling more complex topics like making a big purchase, assessing the future value of a home renovation or planning a career move. Here are some prompt ideas to get you started:

• Compare the best electric cars. I usually prioritize design and comfort, and I want to feel like my purchase is ‘future-proof’. Make a novel scoring system to help me with my assessment.
• I have $15K to use on a home renovation. I’m deciding between a kitchen island, updated bathroom, or replacing the roof. What would increase the value of my home more over the next 3 years?
• I live in a neighborhood that has power outage every time there is high wind. Should I buy a generator? What are the pros and cons, things I should consider, and impact to my budget, and convenience.

We are working hard to scale unlimited access to advanced features to as many people as possible, as quickly as possible, starting today with Voice and Think Deeper. It’s worth noting you may experience delays or interruptions during periods of high demand or if we detect security concerns, misuse or other violations of the Copilot Terms.

Copilot Pro users will retain preferred access to our latest models during peak usage, early access to experimental AI features (more on that coming soon), and additional use of Copilot in select Microsoft 365 apps like Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Thank you to everyone using Copilot and sharing feedback! Your input on what works and what needs improvement helps us make Copilot better and do more for everyone. We love hearing from you, so keep the feedback coming.

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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.

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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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