In December 2023, Microsoft announced that Copilot would be getting several new features, the most significant being the ability to generate responses using GPT-4 Turbo, OpenAI’s latest model at the time.
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In March 2024, Microsoft replaced GPT-4 with GPT-4 Turbo in the free version of Copilot. GPT-4 Turbo was anticipated to take the chatbot’s abilities to new limits, with knowledge of world events up to December 2023 and a 128K context window, four times larger than that of GPT-4. In my testing, I found that GPT-4 Turbo did improve the chatbot’s capabilities.
At Microsoft Build, the company’s annual developer conference, the company revealed that GPT-4o is coming to Copilot on Copilot+ PCs. Even though this release doesn’t impact most Copilot users, it is a major upgrade because GPT-4o is OpenAI’s latest multimodal LLM.
At Build, the company also announced Team Copilot, meant to act as an assistant for entire teams, with features including Group Collaborator, Meeting Facilitator, and Project Manager, which will all be available in preview later in 2024.
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