After launching AI-powered Office features for businesses in November, Microsoft is offering them to consumers in the form of Copilot Pro, which will come with a $20 monthly price tag. According to Microsoft, more than 40 per cent of the Fortune 100 participated in its Copilot early access programme.
Subscribers will get access to AI-powered features inside Office apps, such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint, besides priority access to the latest OpenAI model and the ability to build your Copilot GPT.
If you are a Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscriber, you can use a Copilot Pro subscription to access Copliot in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote on PC, Mac, and iPad.
The Copilot Pro subscription costs $20 per month per user. It’s the same price as ChatGPT’s premium subscription, ChatGPT Plus. Microsoft has also said that the enterprise offering of Copilot for Microsoft 365 will no longer have a seat minimum, allowing businesses of all sizes to take advantage of Copilot’s assistance.
Further, the standard Copilot is getting upgrades, starting with Copilot GPTs.
Microsoft said a handful of Copliot GPTs will start rolling out today. These GPTs will be focussed, like on fitness, travel, cooking, and more. Only Copilot Pro users, however, will be able to make their own.
“Our vision is pretty straightforward. We are the Copilot company,” Microsoft chairman and CEO Satya Nadella said at its Ignite conference in Seattle in November.
In recent months, Microsoft’s valuation has increased drastically. A few days ago,
Microsoft surpassed Apple, claiming the crown after its market value surged by more than $1 trillion over the past year. The tech
industry continues to dominate the list but companies with the most momentum have put generative AI in future business plans. The combined value of Microsoft, Nvidia and Alphabet, Google’s parent company, increased by $2.5 trillion last year.
In 2019, Satya Nadella made Microsoft’s first of several investments in OpenAI, the start-up behind the ChatGPT chatbot. Now, he is putting AI in every aspect of Microsoft products.
This isn’t the first time that Microsoft has pulled ahead of Apple in recent years. It happened in 2018, as Microsoft’s Cloud-computing business began to flourish, and in 2021, when the pandemic disrupted Apple’s iPhone operations.