Microsoft Copilot offers free use of OpenAI’s newest GPT-4 model

Highlights

- Microsoft Copilot is a new name for Bing Chat

- The Android app is free of charge for now

- The Copilot app does not require a Microsoft login

Without any official announcement, Microsoft Copilot has been silently launched for Android users. Copilot, powered by the state-of-the-art OpenAI models GPT-4 and DALL-E 3, can create content and visuals from simple text descriptions and requests.

It is a generative AI assistant that combines Microsoft’s Bing Chat AI chatbot and other AI features under a new name. Microsoft Copilot can be downloaded by all Android users from Google’s Play Store, where it is currently listed.

Microsoft Copilot, the new app that offers Microsoft’s AI conversation helper, is free-to-use but may have in-app purchases, according to the Play Store listing (first seen by Neowin).

The app, which was updated on December 19, is a rebranding of Microsoft’s Bing Chat AI that happened in September. Unlike Bing Chat, the new app does not have Bing’s search engine or rewards, but it does have occasional ads.

According to the listing, Copilot gives users free access to OpenAI’s GPT-4 and DALL-E 3 artificial intelligence models, which are said to provide users with “quick, intricate, and accurate responses, and the capability to generate stunning visuals” from basic text prompts.

Users do not need to sign in to a Microsoft account to use the Microsoft Copilot app for Android. But the company says that using a Microsoft email ID will let users ask “more questions” and have “longer conversations” with the chatbot.

The app also requests an approximate location permission, but users can choose not to share it. A switch in the Microsoft Copilot app allows users to activate GPT-4 access, which the app also cautions will be “less fast while being inventive.

According to a report by Windows Latest, which quotes internal sources, Microsoft is developing an iOS version of Copilot. The report says that it is “almost done” and could release soon but it does not give a specific date. Until then, iOS users can use Microsoft Copilot through the Bing Chat app.