Key Takeaways Microsoft said its Copilot AI assistant will be added to Microsoft 365 for consumers, allowing users to create content with AI in Word, Excel, Powerpoint and more.Subscribers will receive a monthly allotment of AI credits to spend on these tasks.

Microsoft 365 subscribers in Australia, New Zealand, and some Asian markets just got an AI upgrade, along with a huge price increase. How long until customers in the US and Europe see the same?

Copilot is Microsoft's generative AI chatbot featured in much of the company's productivity software, and the tool has free and paid versions.

Microsoft is adding a new wrinkle to Microsoft 365 Copilot, its AI service for businesses, with a free chat experience that includes the ability to create and use AI agents on a pay-as-you-go basis inside organizations.

Copilot Chat is available to try now through the Microsoft 365 Copilot app at m365copilot.com, and Microsoft says that it will soon come to the Microsoft Store on Windows, Play Store, and iPhone App Store.

M365 Copilot Chat is a chat interface powered by OpenAI’s GPT4o that serves up responses based on web data (rather than information held in the Microsoft Graph, as per the paid M365 Copilot subscription). It also includes features such as Copilot Pages and image generation, as well as data protection and IT admin controls at no cost to users.

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) announced on Thursday that it has added Copilot AI features to its Microsoft 365 suite for individual users. This move comes a day after the company introduced on-demand AI agents for businesses.