Last week, Microsoft announced the macOS release of its Copilot application. The AI chatbot was previously introduced for iOS and since then, with the availability of the native app, the Mac users hold the significance. Just like the OpenAI ChatGPT app for Mac, users can quickly invoke Microsoft’s AI Chatbot using a shortcut command.
On the same day as the macOS release, updated versions of the Copilot app for the iPhone and iPad, with several new features added. In an announcement via X, the official Microsoft Copilot account revealed the macOS availability. Though the AI application can be downloaded for free, it requires macOS 14 or later and a Mac with the Apple M1 chip or newer.
Presently, the app is available only in Canada, the UK, and the US, though reports from The Verge state it would extend its availability to other places shortly. The Copilot app is now on the Mac App Store, with its page outlining the numerous capabilities available to macOS users.
Those include dark mode, a quick-access shortcut command, a Think Deeper mode, and image-generation abilities, among others. Computer vision and picture processing for input have also been enabled with the macOS version.
Copilot for Mac works like a standard AI chatbot allowing users to compose emails and essays, summarize lengthy passages, translate them, ask questions on the web, and converse.
Furthermore, it implements new multimodal features: image generation, inline editing, storyboard generation, and uploading files. The app is remarkably light, weighing just 18 MB. Microsoft has also updated the Copilot app on iOS and iPadOS, introducing new capabilities. Users can log in to the iPhone and iPad app via their Apple account, and upload text or PDF files to inquire about their content, and the AI chatbot also summarizes that information. It was noted that the document summarizing capability is expected to hit the macOS app soon.
