Microsoft’s New Copilot Combines Home, Code, and Autopilot: What Users Actually Get

Microsoft is transforming its Copilot AI assistant with a new focus on Home, Code, and Autopilot. The updated design consolidates chat, code generation, and persistent AI agents into a single experience. Home serves as the primary entry point, merging Chat for quick questions and Cowork for delegated multi-step tasks. Copilot can now directly create and update documents, workbooks, and presentations.

Today is an upcoming feature that will turn Home into a dashboard for email, calendar events, Teams conversations, meetings, and tasks. Code allows users to describe an app or automation in plain language, generating working solutions without needing a developer. It uses GitHub Copilot's technology and runs in a sandboxed environment within an organization's Microsoft 365 tenant.

Autopilot, previously called Scout, is a cloud-hosted agent that can operate independently of a user's prompt. It can monitor Teams channels, follow up on conversations, run recurring work, and resume projects without waiting for further input. Autopilot is expanding to private preview, allowing users to define roles, objectives, and boundaries for the agent.

Microsoft is implementing usage-based billing for advanced features like Home, Code, and Autopilot, which means organizations will incur additional costs for these consumptions when users run agentic work.