Key Takeaways Microsoft said its Copilot AI assistant will be added to Microsoft 365 for consumers, allowing users to create content with AI in Word, Excel, Powerpoint and more.Subscribers will receive a monthly allotment of AI credits to spend on these tasks.

Copilot is Microsoft's generative AI chatbot featured in much of the company's productivity software, and the tool has free and paid versions.

(Reuters) - Microsoft said on Thursday that it is now including Copilot AI features to its Microsoft 365 suite for individual consumers, a day after it rolled out on-demand AI agents for businesses. The Windows-maker will give its customers an option to either choose a Microsoft 365 subscription plan with Copilot AI features or one without it.

Microsoft on Wednesday rolled out a chat service allowing businesses to use on-demand AI agents for routine tasks, betting on the pay-as-you-go model to drive up the adoption of the technology. The free service,

Microsoft is looking to boost usage of its Copilot AI tools for businesses. (GeekWire File Photo /) Microsoft is adding a new wrinkle to

Microsoft’s M365 Copilot Chat is a new consumption-based AI product similar to Security Copilot, while the vendor also has license-based GenAI offerings as well.

M365 Copilot Chat is a chat interface powered by OpenAI’s GPT4o that serves up responses based on web data (rather than information held in the Microsoft Graph, as per the paid M365 Copilot subscription). It also includes features such as Copilot Pages and image generation, as well as data protection and IT admin controls at no cost to users.

Microsoft recently unveiled Copilot Chat — "a new offering that adds pay-as-you-go agents to our existing free chat experience for Microsoft 365 commercial customers."