Microsoft has launched Android and iOS apps for its AI-powered productivity assistant, Copilot.
The Copilot mobile app is functionally reminiscent of OpenAI’s ChatGPT mobile version, featuring a clean interface in which users have access can write prompts to ask questions, summarise text, draft emails, blogs and documents. Users can also generate images by leveraging its DALL-E 3 image creator technology.
The app also includes access to one of OpenAI’s latest LLMs, GPT-4, which users have to pay for access to via ChatGPT — the free ChatGPT service still utilises GPT-3.5.
Users can download the Android app from the Google Play Store and the iOS version from the Apple App Store.
Launching Copilot mobile apps underlines Microsoft’s commitment to the service’s rebranding, with Copilot for Windows (and now mobile) largely a revitalised version of the AI-powered Bing Chat, which leveraged a ChatGPT-echoing UI but organically integrated within the Bing search engine, which launched early last year. However, Bing Chat, and its business-targeting sister product Bing Chat Enterprise, were folded into the Copilot umbrella in November.
What’s Been the Copilot Story So Far?
The consumer-centric desktop version, Windows Copilot, has been out since September and is “seamlessly available across all the apps and experiences you use most”, as described by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, including Office 365, Bing and Windows. It can be accessed through the taskbar with the Win+C keyboard shortcut, providing essential assistance alongside every app.
Also out now is the enterprise-focused 365 Copilot, which launched on November 1. What 365 Copilot offers beyond Windows Copilot is commercial data protection, guaranteed security, privacy and compliance, the AI-powered Microsoft 365 Chat, and integration across the Microsoft 365 Apps. Copilot costs $30 per user per month and will be is available for users with Microsoft 365 E3, E5, Business Standard and Business Premium users.
In November, Microsoft announced the “next-generation” of OneDrive, which included new file views, governance controls, creation tools, and Copilot. Copilot with OneDrive became available last month for Microsoft 365 subscribers to search, organise, and retrieve information from their OneDrive files.
In October, Microsoft promised Copilot customers legal protections around copyright. As worries over the legal risks of how AI processes copyright-protected IP continue to mount, the Copilot Copyright Commitment intends to address questions around IP infringement among those aiming to sign up for Copilot.
November’s Microsoft Ignite saw several momentous announcements around Copilot, including the aforementioned update that Bing Chat and Bing Chat Enterprise were now part of the Copilot branding, a move aiming to make Copilot more accessible for everyone to showcase the tech giant’s premier AI-powered productivity tool via Microsoft’s Bing search engine.
Other Copilot news included Microsoft 365 for frontline workers F3 subscribers gaining access to Copilot.
Copilot was added to the F3 license last month and is available for no extra cost. The product also includes commercial data protection, allowing frontline workers to make intelligent requests. Examples include looking up inventory or summarising large internal documents without being worried about sharing sensitive business data.
Other updates to Microsoft 365 for frontline workers include the Shifts plugin for Copilot, dynamic features for managing frontline teams and being able to deploy Shifts at scale.
Lastly, Ignite featured new updates to Teams Phone, such as compelling AI-powered Copilot features.
Copilot in Teams Phone utilises AI to improve users’ productivity across the service, including automating less critical tasks and identifying key discussion points and next steps. Teams Phone supports VoIP and PSTN dynamics and is now generally available included in the Copilot for Microsoft 365 license.
When users wish to refer to previous conversations, such as searching for key details or information they may have missed during the call, post-call support is now available for users to go back to past calls and ask Copilot.
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