What Is Copilot? Everything You Need to Know About Microsoft’s AI Tools

Since OpenAI’s ChatGPT launched in November 2022, tech companies have poured billions of dollars into generative AI. Microsoft joined forces with OpenAI for a multiyear, multibillion-dollar investment. One of the results of this partnership was the creation of Microsoft’s own AI tool, Copilot.

If you’ve spotted Copilot in Windows, then opened Word and found it there too, you might wonder whether they’re the same thing. Microsoft certainly gets its mileage out of the name.

Copilot launched in 2023 as a successor to Bing Chat – which, in a way, evolved from Cortana, though it used a different underlying technology. But you get my point. Microsoft’s virtual assistants have had a long evolution.

Microsoft did have a couple of false starts with AI, though, like its Recall feature, which was quickly dropped from the Copilot Plus PC launch before eventually reaching those computers in April 2025.

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