It’s shocking, given that Microsoft was an early investor in OpenAI. With its early Bing Chat launch, Microsoft pulled ahead of both OpenAI and Google, offering the first chatbot that could search the web. Microsoft even had early access to a more advanced GPT model than the one you could use in ChatGPT at the time. Then everything changed.

Available now for Copilot Labs testers, Appearance can smile, nod, and even raise an eyebrow during your voice conversations.

Microsoft is testing an "appearance" option within Copilot to let you see how it reacts to what you're telling it.

Despite hefty investment into AI, Microsoft is struggling to make headway against ChatGPT and a host of other AI assistants.

Copilot Chat provides free, secure AI chat powered by OpenAI's GPT-4o model, including features like file upload, image generation, Copilot Pages, and agents. Microsoft 365 Copilot adds the ability to integrate institutional data, work directly in productivity apps like Outlook, Teams, PowerPoint, and Excel, and use advanced measurement and management tools.

Microsoft has introduced Copilot Mode in its Edge web browser—an optional experimental feature that embeds the Copilot AI assistant