Microsoft’s premium CoPilot AI service is here, but it’s not cheap

Microsoft has unveiled CoPilot Professional, a premium model of its CoPilot AI utility that amps up the AI-powered usefulness of the app to incorporate way 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 12 months, 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 seek out the suitable recordsdata and settings, in addition to discover solutions to lots of life’s essential questions.

Following this, Microsoft determined to rebrand its AI efforts right into a singular CoPilot model, culminating in it saying firstly of this 12 months that new Microsoft units with keyboards would now embody a CoPilot key for shortly accessing the CoPilot providers. One thing we noticed within the many gaming laptops at CES 2024.

At the moment, CoPilot is being rolled out to Windows 11 units free of charge, although not all units and areas but have the replace and you have to to be logging on to your system 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 under:

Copilot Copilot Professional
For everybody who needs to seek out the suitable data, create distinctive content material, and get issues performed sooner. Together with your free Microsoft account, you’ll be able to: For these in search of accelerated efficiency and creativity capabilities, Copilot Professional supercharges your Copilot expertise. This month-to-month subscription contains all the things 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 displays, and extra
Use textual content, voice, and pictures in conversational search Create AI photographs with DALL-E 3 in panorama format even sooner with 100 boosts per day with Designer (previously Bing Picture Creator)
Create AI photographs 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 supply 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 could be should you’re frequently 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 Facebook and X pages or keep it up studying extra on that new CoPilot key.

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