Microsoft Rebuilds Copilot Around Home, Code and Autopilot

Microsoft says it has rebuilt Copilot and is expanding it into a shared workspace for AI tools. The company is adding three parts: Home, Code and Autopilot. It says the changes aim to make Copilot a central AI platform for work.

Home will bring chat and Cowork together, show recent activity and suggest tasks Copilot can help with. Microsoft says Copilot will select the mode best suited to a task. The planned Today feature will bring email, calendars, chats, meetings and tasks into a personal command center.

Copilot Code is designed to let knowledge workers describe simple apps, tools and workflows in plain language. Microsoft says it uses the same underlying technology as GitHub Copilot. Solutions will run in an isolated sandbox for building and testing. IT-managed infrastructure will let organizations host and share apps and workflows and connect them to business data.

Autopilot is a system of personal AI agents that work independently in the cloud, including when users are not actively using Copilot. Users can give an agent a name, role and goal. Microsoft says it could, for example, plan a supplier review, prepare meetings, handle follow-ups and request status updates. The agents will use Microsoft IQ to build an understanding of how a user and organization work.

Microsoft is also connecting Copilot more closely with Word, Excel and PowerPoint, with changes synchronized between Copilot and Office apps. Teams Copilot will use context and permissions from the channel, group chat or meeting where it is used.

The company is dividing Copilot use into everyday AI, covered by a fixed monthly per-user license, and agentic work, billed based on usage. Cowork, Code and Autopilot fall into the latter category. Microsoft says it is adding FinOps for AI features in Agent365 to help organizations manage costs, model access and business value.