Since its launch, Microsoft is gradually deploying its Copilot assistant to reach more users of all types, which was confirmed by u Launching Copilot Pronew paid subscription service (22 euros per month per user) specially designed assistant for individuals and professionals. With it, these users will be able to use Copilot in a more advanced way, among other things to create tasks or to support development or research tasks.

This subscription also brings Copilot AI capabilities to Microsoft 365 Personal and Microsoft 365 Family subscribers and adds new features to its tools and utilities, including the ability to generate custom GPTs for Copilot. Additionally, the company confirmed that the Copilot apps are now available for iOS and Android smartphones. They will have the same features as the PC version, including access to GPT-4 and Dall-E 3.

Copilot Pro provides a unified AI experience across devices and understands the context of each user on the web, desktop or apps. Soon it will also be able to do this on a smartphone, with the aim of offering its users the skills they need in every situation.

Copilot Pro unlocks the AI ​​assistant from Microsoft 365 Personal and Family

With this new plan, users will have access to Copilot in Word, Excel (still in preview and in English), PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote on PC, Mac and iPad for Microsoft 365 Personal and Family plan subscribers. Plus, they’ll count if you subscribe to Copilot Pro with priority access to the latest models. An example of this is the immediate availability of OpenAI GPT-4 Turbo, even at peak times. Later, they’ll even be able to switch between models to have all kinds of options to optimize the assistant’s user experience.

In addition, Copilot Pro offers AI-enhanced image creation through Designer’s Image Creator, formerly known as Bing Image Creator. With this tool, a higher speed with 100 “magnifications” per day is guaranteed, as well as better image quality. It also allows you to generate images in landscape format.

As we mentioned, it also includes the ability to generate a personalized CPT Copilot using simple instructions, tailored to a specific topic. However, this will require the use of Copilot GPT Builder, which is not yet available and will arrive soon.

Copilot for Microsoft 365 in all types of companies

In addition to the Copilot Pro announcement, Microsoft also made the announcement extends Copilot for Microsoft 365 to companies of all sizes. That way, Assistant, which has been made available to large companies through an access program that 40% of Fortune 100 companies have signed up for, will also reach SMBs and the rest of the companies that haven’t. They were in the program.

Copilot for Microsoft 365 is therefore now available to companies and organizations of all sizes, with no minimum number of positions or employees required to use it. In addition, Microsoft allows its partners to offer the devices they need to any company that wants to introduce artificial intelligence into their operations.

It will be available for small businesses through Microsoft 365 Business Premium and Business Standard plans. One to 299 Assistant licenses can be purchased for $30 per month per person. Therefore, the minimum purchase of 300 licenses for Copilot business plans for Microsoft 365 is removed and the availability of Copilot is extended to Office 365 E3 and E5 customers. Until now, they could only use it through a Microsoft 365 license, but from now on it will not be necessary.

On the other hand, business customers can now purchase Copilot for Microsoft 365 through the Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider partner network. Additionally, Copilot for Microsoft 365 has been available for teachers and educators since last month. Copilot will also be available next month in the Microsoft 365 mobile app for Android and iOS for users with a Microsoft account.

Copilot for Microsoft 365 works with all work data, including emails, chats, documents or meeting information, except for the web. It’s capable of generating status updates with natural language messages and requests based on all of them, and even integrates with Teams to summarize meetings, whether the person requesting the summary attended or not.

All of this is of course backed by enterprise-level security, privacy and compliance. In addition, Microsoft honors its Customer Copyright Commitment, the Customer Copyright Commitment.

In addition to these new features, Microsoft is also deploying what it called Copilot GPT, which allows Copilot’s behavior to be tailored to a specific topic of interest to the user. So from now on Copilots specializing in various topics will begin to be deployedsuch as fitness, cooking or travel.