Microsoft’s Copilot is now finding its way to your (Android) cell phones.
Secretly, quietly, Microsoft released the AI assistance called Copilot as a smartphone app. However, the application is currently only available for Android Google Play Store available.
In Europey, the Android app comes ahead of the actual release of the Copilot AI on Windows, which is not officially planned until March 2024 due to the EU’s competitive conditions.
With the app itself, Microsoft Copilot can be used as a standalone version independently of Bing search, which is one of the few ways to use the AI tool in this country.
GPT-4 serves as the basis for the Android app for text-related tasks, which can be activated with a simple toggle – somewhat surprising, since only the slightly older ChatGPT 3.5 is available in the free web version of OpenAI.
The Microsoft Copilot can now also be installed as an Android app.
If you want to create images using the Copilot app, Dall-E 3 is available. However, at least in a first short test, the generation of images is significantly slower than in the classic web version.
It is not yet known whether and when an iPhone version for Copilot will be released. After all, it is difficult to imagine that Microsoft will forego bringing the app to the iOS platform, so a release is at least expected.
If the iPhone users among you also want to use the Copilot AI on your smartphone, there is a detour via the Bing app im App Store is available. However, this version comes with the comparatively unpopular search engine.
By the way, you can find out how the Microsoft Copilot has performed in practice so far in the first impression:
It is unclear why Microsoft released the Copilot app without much fanfare. At least the listing in the Google Play Store suggests that the application has been available for download for just over a week.
Now the question is: Will you get the Copilot app for Android or are you waiting for a corresponding iPhone version? Will you use such AIs more often on your smartphone or PC? Or do you not care about the co-pilot anyway? Let us know in the comments!
