The Microsoft Copilot app is now available for free on the App Store. Microsoft’s Assistant, which works with GPT-4 artificial intelligence, is extremely powerful.
Just a few days after the launch of Microsoft Copilot on Android phones, it’s the turn of iPhones to benefit from it. The Microsoft Copilot app has been available since December 30, 2023 on the App Store, where it can be downloaded free of charge for iPhones and iPads.
The name Microsoft Copilot may not mean anything to you. However, this is the new name for Bing ChatGPT – the search engine and personal assistant boosted with artificial intelligence developed by Microsoft. Since its name change in November, Copilot is the basic tool for using this AI – and it includes a large number of technologies, free of charge.
Microsoft Copilot provides free access to the power of GPT-4
Concretely, the app is in the form of a chatbot — a dialog box, where you can ask questions to an artificial intelligence (in this case GPT-4), or ask it for services. You can ask him to search for information, write texts or emails for you, but you can also have him summarize articles. You can also ask the Dall-E AI to generate images with a prompt, without having to go through another app.
The free arrival of Microsoft Copilot on iPhone and iPad should further democratize the use of artificial intelligence and GPT – especially since Copilot offers many advantages compared to OpenAI’s native app, ChatGPT. Indeed, the use of Dall-E is now chargeable. It’s the same thing if you want to access ChatGPT-4, the latest version of the most powerful chatbot: you have to pay, and subscribe to OpenAI services.
With Microsoft Copilot, you have access to these two tools for free. If this may come as a surprise, you should remember that Microsoft is the main shareholder of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. Microsoft thus has the right to use the ChatGPT language model, and the company therefore does so through Copilot. The two AIs are, however, slightly different: Copilot works with the same engine as ChatGPT, but has received specific instructions and settings from Microsoft.
In the end, all the same, Copilot remains a tool as powerful as ChatGPT, while having the immense advantage of being free (while being under GPT-4). Microsoft is increasingly trying to establish itself as a leader in the AI War — and Copilot is helping it position itself even further.
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