Microsoft 365 Copilot Will Be Available for Commercial Customers on November 1

Microsoft 365 Copilot, the new AI-powered productivity assistant that the company announced earlier this year will officially launch on November 1. Microsoft 365 commercial customers will have to pay an extra $30 per user per month to access the AI assistant, which Microsoft is currently testing with select customers via an early access program.

The Microsoft 365 Copilot will provide generative AI features across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and more. It will also be available on Microsoft 365 Chat, a new hero experience that Microsoft detailed today.

“Like an assistant, it has a deep understanding of you, your job, your priorities, and your organization. It can find whatever you need in your files (even the files you forgot existed), connect the dots across all your content and context at the speed of light, and even integrate with the apps you use to run your business,” said Jared Spataro, CVP of Modern Work & Business Applications about the new Microsoft Chat experience today.

Microsoft also announced today Copilot Lab, a new destination where Microsoft 365 Commercial customers who have access to Copilot will be able to learn how to get more productive with the AI assistant. Because let’s be real, there is going to be a big learning curve for organizations willing to jump on the Microsoft 365 Copilot train.

Overall, the Microsoft 365 Copilot will be able to do a lot of things, including summarizing an email thread in Outlook, rewriting a paragraph in Word, or analyzing data for you in Excel. This will be in addition to the Copilot experience in Windows that’s coming with the 23H2 update on September 26.

For Microsoft 365 customers who are not willing to pay for the Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft also offers Bing Chat Enterprise for free with Microsoft 365 E3 and E5, Business Standard, and Business Premium subscriptions. Bing Chat Enterprise provides the same experience as the Bing chatbot for consumers with the addition of commercial data protection. Microsoft also guarantees that it doesn’t store queries or use them to train its AI models.

Microsoft also announced today that Bing Chat Enterprise is now available in the Microsoft Edge mobile app. Bing Chat Enterprise is also adding support for multimodal visual search and Image Creator.