The updated AI assistant comes with a new version for WhatsApp and is compatible with Windows, iOS, Android, and the web.
Microsoft advances its AI assistant, Copilot, with voice and vision features. With the latest features, the company intends to make the Copilot a more personalized AI assistant.
“We really are at this amazing kind of transition point,” said CEO of Microsoft AI Mustafa Suleyman. “AI companions now see what we see, hear what we hear, and speak in the same language that we use to communicate with one another.”
What Can the Updated AI Assistant Do?
The Copilot app has been upgraded to include a news summary feature called Copilot Daily. Additionally, Copilot Vision is capable of providing guidance and responding to queries on text and images that users are browsing on the internet.
The enhanced AI assistant comes with a new version for WhatsApp and is compatible with Windows, iOS, Android, and the web.
The vision tool, which requires customers to opt in, is being tested on a limited number of popular websites so that Microsoft can collect data and verify safety. Microsoft has also introduced numerous new AI features for the devices.
The new Copilot will be able to interact with users in a variety of human-like voices, with genuine interruptions and pauses. “You can interrupt in mid-flow, and it can also actively listen. And that’s kind of the art of great conversation,” Suleyman says. Copilot has also been tweaked to provide users with more emotional support.
Latest Copilot AI Availability
According to Microsoft, Copilot Voice will be available in English to users in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, and New Zealand, with more countries to follow.
Users can access Copilot Voice in the free version of Copilot for Windows. It is also available in a standalone mobile app and via the web.
Additionally, Microsoft is introducing some more experimental upgrades in Copilot that will only be available to Copilot Pro subscribers who pay $20 a month.
According to Microsoft, text interactions with Copilot are stored for 18 months, while users have the option to delete conversations. Copilot Vision will erase all user inquiries after a session and not keep a record of them.
The feature will be limited to specific websites and will not allow access to any copyrighted or NSFW content. Microsoft says it will be made available to Copilot Pro users in the US at an undisclosed date. The company further outlined that no data is exchanged with OpenAI.
What’s More Updates?
Another experimental feature, Think Deeper, allows Copilot to try to answer more complex problems by mimicking step-by-step thinking. The technology is based in part on a new AI model called OpenAI o1, which OpenAI revealed earlier this month. Think Deeper is available to some Copilot Pro users in the United States.
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