Microsoft is relaunching its free Copilot for businesses as Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat today, complete with the ability to use AI agents. Copilot Chat is Microsoft’s latest attempt to get people used to using AI at work and relying on it enough to tempt them into paying $30 per month to get the full Microsoft 365 Copilot.

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.

Microsoft is launching a pay-as-you-go plan for corporate customers that bundles together several, but not all, of the company’s existing AI-powered productivity features for Microsoft 365. The new plan,

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's Copilot Chat empowers businesses with AI agents for tasks like market analysis and strategy building

With Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, Microsoft is introducing pay-as-you-go AI agents to the free version of its Copilot chatbot for businesses.

Microsoft on Wednesday rolled out a chat service allowing businesses to use on-demand AI agents for routine tasks, betting on the pay-as-you-go model to drive up the adoption of the technology.

Moveworks, a leading generative AI assistant for employee support, today announced an expansion of its strategic alliance with Microsoft that will allow employees to access Moveworks as an agent within Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft Teams.

Microsoft has released its AI agents feature, small models designed to automate repetitive business tasks, to all of its commercial customers.The Latest Tech News, Delivered to Your Inbox