Microsoft today announced the launch of its new feature "Copilot Pages," aiming to be a canvas for "multi-person AI collaboration." Copilot Pages allows users to collaborate with Microsoft's Copilot chatbot and pull replies into a new page for collaborative editing with others.
Jared Spataro, Corporate Vice President for Microsoft AI and Workplace, said, "You and your team can collaborate with Copilot on a page, see everyone's work in real-time, and iterate with Copilot as a partner, adding more content from your data, files, and the web to your page. This is a new way of working - multi-person, human to AI, and back to human collaboration."
Pages is rolling out to Microsoft 365 Copilot customers today and will be available to all subscribers later this month. It is built on the collaboration foundation of Microsoft and Loop, a competitor to Notion that features futuristic Lego-like Office documents.
You can share Copilot Pages simply by sharing a link, and colleagues can start editing them immediately, just like editing a shared Word document. You can also embed Copilot Pages as components into other pages. As it is associated with BizChat, the work hub built by Microsoft for Copilot, you can also extract data from the web or work files to create project plans, meeting notes, business proposals, and more. Microsoft sees Copilot Pages as a new way of working that blends human and AI inputs on one canvas.
Microsoft is also bringing Copilot Pages to over 400 million users who can use the company's free Copilot chatbot, provided they log in with a commercial version of Microsoft Entra account. This is part of Microsoft's broader effort to drive the application of Copilot in enterprises, including improving AI assistants in various Office applications. Click here to learn more about the improvements in Office applications.
Microsoft also launched its Copilot intelligence agents for all businesses today. These agents were announced at the Build conference earlier this year and will act as virtual employees to automate tasks. Unlike Copilot, which waits for queries as a chatbot, these intelligence agents will be able to proactively perform tasks such as monitoring email inboxes and automating a range of tasks or data inputs that employees typically perform manually.
Microsoft 365 Copilot subscribers will also get a new agent builder in Copilot Studio. "Now, anyone can quickly create a Copilot intelligence agent in BizChat or SharePoint, unlocking the value of the vast knowledge base stored in SharePoint files," said Spataro. These agents are designed to appear as virtual colleagues in Teams or Outlook, allowing you to mention them with @ and ask questions.
