Copilot is Coming to OneDrive and the Microsoft 365 Mobile App

Microsoft has a lot of Copilot announcements today. Copilot in Windows is getting support for third-party plugins and new commands, but the AI assistant is also now available within the Microsoft 365 mobile app. The AI assistant is also coming to OneDrive this spring, but only for commercial for work and school accounts with a Copilot for Microsoft 365 license.

“Last fall, we announced that Copilot capabilities would be coming to OneDrive. We’re now proud to say that Copilot in OneDrive will begin to roll out in late-April 2024. This new capability will help you quickly retrieve information from files in your OneDrive,” Microsoft said today.

Copilot will be available on the OneDrive web app as well as the file viewer in Microsoft Teams, OneDrive, and SharePoint. It will appear as a sidebar where users can ask questions about their OneDrive files using natural language.

Copilot in OneDrive won’t just be able to find specific files, it will also be able to extract relevant information from them and format it in a document or table. The AI assistant will also be able to summarize the content of multiple files, suggest improvements to existing files, and create automated summaries when sharing files with colleagues.

In OneDrive, Copilot will be able to do its AI magic on Office documents, Loop components, OpenDocument formats, PDFs, and web files. The AI assistant currently supports English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, and Chinese (Simplified), with more languages to come soon.

To use Copilot in OneDrive, commercial customers will need a Copilot for Microsoft 365 subscription priced at $30 per user per month. That subscription also provides access to Copilot in Microsoft Teams, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, and other Microsoft 365 apps.

If you use the Microsoft 365 mobile app, you can also access Copilot in it via a new shortcut in the bottom navigation bar. This is the same free version of Copilot that’s accessible in Microsoft Edge and the dedicated Copilot mobile app, but users with a Copilot for Microsoft 365 license can also access the Microsoft 365 Copilot in Word and PowerPoint files.