Microsoft Plans Copilot Super App
- •Microsoft plans one Copilot super app spanning consumer and commercial experiences this quarter
- •Copilot app will combine Code, chat, coworking tools and autonomous agents, according to Fortune
- •Nadella says Copilot conversations per user nearly doubled year over year
Microsoft is preparing to launch one “super app” for Copilot this quarter, CEO Satya Nadella said on Wednesday’s earnings call. The app will bring together Copilot experiences, including Code, across consumer and commercial use cases. Nadella said Copilot is moving “from chat to Cowork to autopilots,” and called the combined product a “major step forward.”
The planned Copilot app follows a wider push toward products that combine chatbots and AI agents (systems that can act toward goals). The article said OpenAI has hinted at a ChatGPT super app for almost a year, and cited a Financial Times report last month saying ChatGPT was preparing its biggest overhaul since launch. OpenAI unveiled an employee version earlier this month, while Anthropic’s Claude Cowork recently merged with Claude.
Fortune first reported Microsoft’s super app plans back in May. According to that report, the product will combine Copilot’s coding assistant, chat, coworking tools and autonomous agents (software acting with limited supervision). Its main purpose is to connect personal and enterprise Copilots so users can toggle between them. The internal slogan is reportedly “Delivering one Copilot,” with launch expected by the end of summer.
Microsoft also reported stronger-than-expected revenue on Wednesday, helped by record growth in cloud. Nadella said conversations per user nearly doubled year over year, average weekly engagement is on par with Outlook and Teams, and customer deployment to high usage, defined as monthly active usage of about 80% across a customer’s user base, fell from months to just days over the past year. CFO Amy Hood said Microsoft extended the estimated useful life of data centers and office buildings from 15 to 25 years, changing how future data center leases are classified.