All the things’s developing Copilot — together with Bing.
As we speak at Microsoft Ignite 2023, the corporate renamed Bing Chat, the AI-powered chatbot it launched on Bing earlier this yr, to Copilot in Bing. In the meantime, the premium, corporate-focused model of Bing Chat, which was beforehand referred to as Bing Chat Enterprise, has additionally been rebranded to Copilot.
Why the title modifications? To not trigger confusion, Microsoft swears — even supposing the corporate now has roughly a dozen merchandise that share the Copilot model.
“Renaming ‘Bing Chat Enterprise’ to ‘Copilot’ reflects our vision to create a unified Copilot experience for consumer and commercial customers,” Caitlin Roulston, director of communications at Microsoft, advised TechCrunch by way of e-mail.
That is smart. However it could possibly be, additionally, that Bing Chat didn’t transfer the needle a lot for Bing — and so Microsoft’s trying to divorce the tech from the search engine that launched it. An August report from StatCounter discovered that Bing did not take any market share from Google six months after Bing Chat launched; Microsoft has disputed the findings.
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It’s not simply the title that’s new. Beginning December 1, customers who signal into Bing with a company account — a Microsoft Entra ID, to be exact — will obtain the good thing about “commercial data protection” whereas utilizing Copilot in Bing. Which means their information received’t be saved nor used to coach AI fashions, Roulston says, and Microsoft received’t have entry to it.
“Copilot will update the commercial terms and conditions on December 1 to reflect that it’s a generally available product from Microsoft,” she added. “As part of this, it will inherit Microsoft’s universal license terms for online services … Over time, Microsoft will expand eligibility of Copilot with commercial data protection to even more Entra ID users at no additional cost.”
Copilot is now accessible in Home windows along with Copilot.Microsoft.com and Bing, transport in vary of Microsoft’s enterprise subscription plans — Microsoft 365 E, E5, Enterprise Premium and Enterprise Customary — at no further price. Copilot can be included in Microsoft 365 F3 beginning December 1. For all different clients, it’ll be out there à la carte for $5 per thirty days.
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This story was initially printed at 8am PT on Nov. 15 and up to date at 3:20pm PT.