VentureBeat January 15, 2025
Microsoft has been positioning Copilot as the “UI for AI.” The company has already launched several variants of the GPT-4o-powered assistant for business and personal users. Now, as the next step in this work, it is launching Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat — a rebranded version of its free AI chat experience for businesses, enhanced with agentic capabilities.
Available starting today, the offering is designed to give businesses an easy way to explore most, if not all, of the capabilities of the more full-featured Microsoft 365 Copilot, which is priced at $30 per user per month. Although the experience is free, there is a notable caveat: The agentic capabilities promising task automation will work only on a consumption-based model.
The goal...