Copilot is Microsoft’s enormous response to the ongoing AI chatbot buzz, and with over a year behind its efforts, the widely-adopted chatbot is set to receive some truly exciting updates in the next few months. Here are a few brand-new Copilot features I’m personally eager to try out when they hit Copilot.
Multi-modal search
It goes without saying that Bing, Microsoft’s search engine, has come a long way since its initial launch. It’s still not as good as Google, but Microsoft hasn’t given up on making it useful yet. One of Copilot’s most interesting upcoming updates will allow you to take advantage of multi-modal search.
This essentially means you’ll be able to use the AI chatbot to carry out online searches, and it’ll combine the vision of Bing image search and the information from web search to provide more accurate results.
GPT-4 Turbo
Another significant new feature coming to Copilot will help enhance the chatbot’s responses. Microsoft’s chatbot is built off of GPT-4, the same large language model (LLM) that powers the premium version of OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Copilot is one of the only ways you can access GPT-4 for free, and soon it’ll receive an upgrade to GPT-4 Turbo, which is the latest model OpenAI has developed.
Once the upgrade to GPT-4 Turbo arrives, Copilot users will be able to tackle even more complex and longer tasks. It’ll put the Microsoft-built chatbot more on par with ChatGPT, which will be especially useful if you weren’t able to upgrade to ChatGPT Plus before OpenAI suspended new subscriptions earlier this year.
DALL-E 3
You can already try DALL-E 3 using Bing’s image creator, but soon, Microsoft will bring the full capabilities of DALL-E 3 to Copilot as part of one of the upcoming updates. This will allow you to generate high-quality images directly through the chatbot, enabling you to create more detailed queries. This new feature has been gaining traction recently thanks to a social media trend, and it’ll get even more widespread use once it hits Copilot.
DALL-E 3 introduces a variety of additional options for image generation, and it’ll be great to be able to take advantage of it in Copilot, too. This is another GPT feature that is usually only available widely to ChatGPT Plus users, so this will be a great way to test it out for free.
