The motivation behind the new Copilot: intelligence is accelerating fast. Now we need to diffuse it everywhere.
The New Bottleneck The bottleneck is no longer intelligence. Over the last six months, intelligence has accelerated dramatically. But smarter models are not enough for everyone to benefit from novel intelligence. New form factors are required. GPT-3 needed Chat. Opus 4.5 needed Code and Cowork. Today, with Astra and Fable, we’re in a familiar position. Intelligence is advancing faster than it can reach people in useful forms. The model overhang is back. The new bottleneck is diffusion. Increased intelligence needs to translate to human progress. Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization to achieve more. If we fail to create new ways to utilize increased intelligence, this mission is at risk. The New Copilot Our next step is the new Copilot. Home, Code, and Autopilot. Home is your new starting point, unifying Chat and Cowork into a single experience. Ask a quick question or delegate a whole project. No need to decide where to start. Home also features Today, our new proactive view that spans Outlook, Teams, meetings, and tasks. Today doesn’t just flag things you missed; it moves work forward. The draft is already written, and the schedule change is already proposed. We’re also bringing Office into Copilot. For the first time, you don’t have to choose between AI editing and human collaboration. We’ve brought the full power of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint into Copilot, so you can create, edit, and collaborate with colleagues and Copilot at the same time. Next, Code is coming to Copilot. Models can write code but environments, hosting, and sharing get in the way. With Code, just describe an app, tracker or workflow in plain English. Code runs sandboxed on your machine or safely in your tenant in the cloud. Now, hosting and sharing an app is as easy as a Word document. Finally, Autopilot. Your digital teammate. Give it a name, an appearance, a role, and a goal. Your Autopilot has it’s own identity, memory, computer, and workspace. Autopilot is enterprise grade, with real permissions, audit, and governance, all from Agent365. It can monitor work, coordinate with your team, and keep projects running over weeks -- just tag it in a document, forward it an email, or message it on Teams! Home. Code. Autopilot. Intelligence is here. Put it to work.