Microsoft provides free Copilot Chat to Microsoft 365 apps

Microsoft is making a free model of the Copilot Chat functionality out there to each Microsoft 365 person, though extra premium capabilities will nonetheless be locked behind a subscription.

The Chat window will now seem inside Phrase, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote, permitting customers to question a doc, create photographs, and extra. Microsoft says you’ll now be capable to do much more, with a number of picture uploads permitted throughout the app. The enter field has been widened as nicely, presumably to current Copilot as a collaborative software that shares precedence with the doc itself.

Microsoft can be making GPT-5 a part of the Copilot expertise, because it has stated earlier than.

Licensed Copilot customers now get entry to Researcher and Analyst brokers instantly inside Copilot, serving to them discover concepts, analyze knowledge, and speed up their work, Microsoft stated in a weblog put up. At $20 per person per thirty days, Copilot Professional contains “intensive utilization” limits, entry to numerous fashions, and superior analysis instruments. The plan provides project-specific notebooks, an AI design studio for branded photographs, and extra. Microsoft can be selling “brokers”–AI bots that may pursue duties in your behalf–as a premium characteristic.

In fact, in case you don’t need to add Copilot to your system, there are free options as an alternative.

The free Copilot chat apparently introduces a brand new syntax, too. As a substitute of clicking and searching down information to add, Microsoft says that you simply’ll be capable to merely kind a “/” key after which seek for what you want.