Microsoft has unveiled CoPilot Professional, a premium model of its CoPilot AI software that amps up the AI-powered usefulness of the app to incorporate rather more direct entry to textual content and picture era, relegating non-Professional customers to solely entry these options in non-peak instances.
The brand new CoPilot Professional additionally provides CoPilot help to Microsoft 365, together with Phrase, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and OneNote, permitting you “to create, edit, and talk sooner.”
CoPilot is Microsoft’s pretty new AI assistant that initially launched as Bing Chat solely final yr, in February 2023, merely months after it purchased Chat GPT. The addition of AI to its Bing native search enabled customers to extra naturally work together with their computer systems to search out the fitting recordsdata and settings, in addition to discover solutions to a lot of life’s essential questions.
Following this, Microsoft determined to rebrand its AI efforts right into a singular CoPilot model, culminating in it saying initially of this yr that new Microsoft gadgets with keyboards would now embrace a CoPilot key for shortly accessing the CoPilot companies. One thing we noticed within the many gaming laptops at CES 2024.
Presently, CoPilot is being rolled out to Home windows 11 gadgets totally free, although not all gadgets and areas but have the replace and you will want to be logging on to your gadget with a Microsoft account to entry it – native logins received’t work.
Now, with its AI efforts increasing ever extra, the corporate has added a premium tier to its earlier free AI service. The distinction between the tiers is summarised beneath:
Copilot | Copilot Professional |
For everybody who desires to search out the fitting data, create distinctive content material, and get issues performed sooner. Along with your free Microsoft account, you may: | For these on the lookout for accelerated efficiency and creativity capabilities, Copilot Professional supercharges your Copilot expertise. This month-to-month subscription contains every little thing in Copilot, plus: |
Use Copilot on the net and in Home windows, macOS, and iPadOS | Achieve precedence entry to GPT-4 and GPT-4 Turbo together with throughout peak instances for accelerated efficiency to get issues performed sooner |
Entry GPT-4 and GPT-4 Turbo throughout non-peak instances | Entry Copilot in choose Microsoft 365 apps to draft paperwork, summarize emails, create shows, and extra |
Use textual content, voice, and pictures in conversational search | Create AI photos with DALL-E 3 in panorama format even sooner with 100 boosts per day with Designer (previously Bing Picture Creator) |
Create AI photos with 15 boosts per day with Designer (previously Bing Picture Creator) | |
Use plug-ins and GPTs | |
Use free model of Copilot |
The CoPilot Professional worth is $20 a month, which appears fairly excessive to us, contemplating it doesn’t provide an enormous variety of really distinctive options. That mentioned, we’ve not had a lot of a play with the free tier of CoPilot to guage simply how limiting it is likely to be for those who’re commonly producing AI content material.
Have you ever tried CoPilot but? What do you make of it and would you be tempted by a premium tier? Tell us your ideas on our Fb and X pages or stick with it studying extra on that new CoPilot key.