Microsoft Brings Free Copilot Chat to Microsoft 365 Apps

Microsoft has begun rolling out a new Copilot Chat integration throughout Microsoft 365 apps. This new function allows customers to entry the Copilot AI assistant seamlessly as a sidebar inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote.

This new free model of Copilot Chat is designed to assist customers ask questions, draft paperwork, create shows, analyze spreadsheets, and extra with out requiring a Microsoft 365 Copilot license at $30 per consumer monthly. The AI assistant can view the consumer’s present doc, spreadsheet, or presentation open in Microsoft 365 apps. It additionally offers entry to an interactive Pages canvas, picture era, a number of file uploads assist, and pay-as-you-go AI brokers.

“Copilot Chat is secure AI chat grounded in the web—and now, it’s available in the Microsoft 365 apps,” defined Seth Patton, General Manager of Microsoft 365 Copilot Product Marketing. “It’s content aware, meaning it quickly understands what you’re working on, tailoring answers to the file you have open. And it’s included at no additional cost for Microsoft 365 users.”

Microsoft’s new Copilot Chat integration additionally allows customers to finish duties extra shortly. Instead of clicking to seek out and add recordsdata, Office customers can simply kind a slash (“/”) and seek for the instruments, recordsdata, or actions they want proper within the chat.

Premium advantages with a Microsoft 365 Copilot subscription

This new Copilot Chat integration is presently accessible without spending a dime for Microsoft 365 enterprise clients. However, sure premium options require a Microsoft 365 Copilot subscription. It permits the Copilot AI assistant to entry all their recordsdata, emails, conferences, chats, and extra, as an alternative of simply the content material that’s presently open. The Copilot subscription additionally consists of the Create graphic design studio to assist customers generate photos and movies.

Lastly, Microsoft 365 Copilot subscribers can entry AI brokers for extra superior reasoning, together with the Researcher and Analyst brokers. They must also expertise quicker response occasions and precedence entry to OpenAI’s GPT-5 mannequin.