Microsoft Launches Standalone Copilot App on Android
- Laurent Giret
- Dec 26, 2023
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Microsoft has launched a new standalone app for its Copilot Assistant on Android (via Neowin). The new Copilot app provides access to the same assistant that’s still available in Microsoft Edge and the Bing mobile apps, which used to be called “Bing Chat.”
Microsoft at its Ignite conference last month that Bing Chat was being rebranded to Copilot, and the AI assistant is also now available on the web at copilot.microsoft.com. Copilot provides free access to OpenAI’s GPT-4 and DALL·E 3 models, while OpenAI’s ChatGPT app locks its latest models behind a paywall.
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To my knowledge, Microsoft didn’t communicate about the launch of this new Copilot for Android app, which according to the Play Store listing was last updated on December 19. We don’t know yet if an iOS app is also in the pipeline, though that would make sense.
While “Copilot” brand is still pretty new, the new AI assistant is likely going to get a level of exposure Cortana never had. Copilot is now integrated into Windows 11 and Windows 10, and it’s also available within Microsoft Edge, Skype, and Microsoft 365 apps. However, Copilot for Microsoft 365, the paid version of the AI assistant is quite expensive at $30 per user per month on top of a Microsoft 365 E3 or E5 subscription.