Microsoft introduces a professional plan for Copilot
January 15 2024
Microsoft is intensifying its commitment to AI-driven productivity by launching Copilot Pro, a new paid consumer plan at $20 per user per month, and expanding its enterprise-level offerings. Copilot Pro, which requires a Microsoft 365 Personal or Family plan, integrates with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote, enabling advanced features such as text editing, presentation design, and email drafting. Additionally, the plan offers benefits like access to the latest AI models, custom image creation with Designer, and the promise of future customization options with Copilot GPT Builder. Simultaneously, Microsoft has made Copilot widely available to businesses with fewer restrictions and has differentiated enterprise features, such as Copilot in Teams. Despite the focus on paid plans, Microsoft continues to support free users with new Copilot GPTs, a mobile app with advanced AI capabilities, and upcoming multi-language support.
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What does it mean?
- AI-driven: Related to or powered by artificial intelligence, which is a broad area of computer science concerned with building smart machines capable of performing tasks that typically require human intelligence.
- Consumer plan: A subscription or service package offered to individual customers, often for personal use, rather than to businesses or organizations.
- Microsoft 365 Personal or Family plan: A subscription-based plan offered by Microsoft that provides access to Microsoft's suite of productivity applications and services, tailored for personal or family use.
- Integrates: To combine one thing with another so that they work together effectively.
- Text editing: The process of altering text to correct, condense, organize, and modify it to improve its accuracy and readability.
- Presentation design: The act of planning and creating the visual layout and content of a presentation, typically using software such as Microsoft PowerPoint.
- Email drafting: The process of composing and arranging the text and content of an email.
- Custom image creation: Making personalized visual content according to specified requirements or preferences.
- Copilot GPT Builder: Presumed to be a tool or feature related to Copilot that allows for more personalized or configurable interactions with AI models, possibly leveraging the GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) architecture.
- Enterprise-level offerings: Products, services, or subscription plans designed for large organizations or businesses, usually offering additional features or capabilities compared to those aimed at individual consumers.
- Copilot in Teams: Refers to integrating the Copilot functionality within Microsoft Teams, which is a platform for collaboration and communication within enterprise environments.
- Multi-language support: The ability of software to operate in multiple languages, allowing users to interact with it in their preferred language.