The good relationship of Microsoft with OpenAI It is bearing fruit. Although Microsoft has experience in artificial intelligence, it decided integrate GPT AI of OpenAI in its products and services. You will find it in Windows, in Office, in Bing and as a standalone application. Apparently, its success is such that Copilot, which is what this service is called, has released a Premium paid version, Copilot Pro.
Copilot is the AI version of Cortana. An intelligent assistant that uses GPT-4 to answer your questions, process information or solve the problems you pose. In the words of Microsoft, its areas of work are “enhancing your creativity and productivity.” And since Microsoft launched it, we can use Copilot in Bing, Windows or on your mobile phone by installing its own app. Furthermore, it has the advantage of being freeunlike ChatGPT which has a few payment options.
But everything has a price, and heavy use of Copilot makes Microsoft launch Copilot Pro, the Premium version of Copilot. Its reason for being? Give “priority access to GPT-4 and GPT-4 Turbo during peak times to accelerate performance and generate AI responses, content and images even faster.”
What is Copilot Pro
As we said, Copilot Pro is the Copilot paid version. In exchange for a monthly subscription, you will get priority access to this artificial intelligence tool. That is, it will respond to you faster, it will generate images and text faster and you can use Copilot in other Microsoft applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote. Yes indeed. The integration of Office with Copilot Pro implies having a Microsoft 365 Personal or Family subscription.
If you are already satisfied with Copilot, perfect. But if you use it for most of the day, especially at peak times, you may have noticed that their response is slower. If so, with the priority access of Copilot Pro, while Copilot users will be limited to GPT 3.5, you will still be able to use GPT-4 and GPT-4 Turbo.
Another advantage is that with Copilot Pro you can generate 100 images daily compared to 15 for Copilot in its free version. For the rest, it works in Spain, the United States, Mexico and in countries such as Germany, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, France, India, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Switzerland.
Who is this AI tool for?
In principle, Copilot Pro is designed for everyone. In the words of Microsoft, “individuals, creators and advanced users who want to get the most out of their Copilot experience.” Precisely, both Copilot and Copilot Pro are designed to be easy to use. Whether you get more or less out of it will depend on your knowledge, needs and creativity.
In practice, subscribing to Copilot Pro will depend on use you give it now to Copilot. If you barely use it, it’s not worth it. And if you use it extensively but feel comfortable with Copilot, good for you. Copilot Pro is designed for those who need to always have available Copilot and use it for personal and/or professional use constantly. Only then will you get the most out of your paid subscription.
Differences between Copilot and Copilot Pro
Copilot is free and available on the web and on Windows, macOS and iPadOS. And in the form of an app, on iOS and Android. You will also see Copilot within the Bing and Edge apps for iOS and Android. For its part, Copilot Pro has a monthly cost and is available on the same platforms and applications.
With Copilot you will have access to GPT 3.5 always GPT 4 and GPT 4 Turbo “during off-peak hours.” On the other hand, with Copilot Pro you can always use “GPT-4 and GPT-4 Turbo even during peak hours to accelerate performance and get things done faster.”
Copilot allows generate images with artificial intelligence with a limit of 15 images per day. For its part, Copilot Pro has a limit of 100 images per day. Both options are accessible from the tool Designerwhich was previously called Bing Image Builder. Another detail of Copilot Pro is that it includes the horizontal format in the generated images. Unlike images generated with Copilot.
Finally, if in addition to Copilot Pro you are subscribed to Microsoft 365, you can use this intelligent assistant in Office applications such as Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and OneNote. Instead of cutting and pasting Copilot chat responses and content, you can integrate it directly into your documents. These functions consist of “composing documents, summarizing emails, creating presentations” and much more.
Subscription price
The cost of Copilot Pro is €22 per user per month. At the moment, this is the default plan offered by Microsoft. And although it has no permanence, “the subscription continues to be charged monthly unless canceled on the Microsoft account.”
For the rest, the subscription is individual. For now, no subscription for groups, as is the case with ChatGPT in its Team and Enterprise versions. This implies that “if you have a subscription to Microsoft 365 Family and you have shared it with other people, each of them will have to purchase their own Copilot Pro subscription to be able to use Copilot in Microsoft 365 applications.
Getting the most out of Copilot Pro
To squeeze Copilot and Copilot Pro, Microsoft has a page filled with resources, ideas, videos and other content related to this “AI supplement for everyday life”. Although it works for both versions, there are options focused on the paid version. Especially those that have to do with Word, Outlook, PowerPoint or Excel.
Thus, you will find tips for Write texts from a simple idea, summarize the content of emails that are too long, transcribe meetings and process that information to better understand it or make a draft of a presentation in seconds. And if you use Copilot or Copilot Pro at work, there is another portal dedicated full of suggestions to work better thanks to Copilot and apps like Teams, Outlook, Word either Excel.
Among the aids for working with Copilot or Copilot Pro, a document stands out that explains How should we ask him? to this AI to get the best results. First, tell you what you need: know what a certain concept is, edit text, summarize information, expand a short text into a longer document, create content from an idea, make lists… Secondly, Microsoft recommends including four basic elements in our requests to Copilot and Copilot Pro: what we want to obtain, why we need it, what source of information we prefer and, finally, what expectations we have or how should you respond to us GPT.
The document also gives tips on what to do and what not to do by asking Copilot and Copilot Pro. In the to do, recommends being clear and specific, having a conversation to improve the initial response, giving examples, writing correctly, being polite and offering as much detail as possible. On the opposite side, recommends avoiding inappropriate, vague or unethical requests, informal language, giving confusing or incompatible instructions or constantly interrupting responses.