Microsoft is announcing its new Copilot Pages feature today, which is designed to be a canvas for “multiplayer AI collaboration.” Copilot Pages lets you use Microsoft’s Copilot chatbot and pull responses into a new page where they can be edited collaboratively with others.
“You and your team can work collaboratively in a page with Copilot, seeing everyone’s work in real time and iterating with Copilot like a partner, adding more content from your data, files, and the web to your Page,” says Jared Spataro, corporate vice president of AI at work at Microsoft. “This is an entirely new work pattern — multiplayer, human to AI to human collaboration.”
Pages starts rolling out to Microsoft 365 Copilot customers today and will be generally available to all subscribers later this month. It builds on top of Microsoft’s collaborative work with Loop, a Notion competitor that includes futuristic Lego-like Office documents.
You can share Copilot Pages with just a link, and colleagues can immediately start editing them just like they would a shared Word document. You can also embed Copilot Pages into other pages as components. As it’s tied to Microsoft’s new BizChat, a work hub for Copilot, you can also pull data from the web or from work files to create a project plan, meeting notes, a business pitch, and much more. Microsoft sees Copilot Pages as a new pattern of work that includes humans and AI input in a single canvas.
Microsoft is also bringing Copilot Pages to the more than 400 million people who have access to the company’s free Copilot chatbot when signed in with a business Microsoft Entra account. It’s part of a larger push of Copilot for businesses that includes improving the AI assistant throughout a variety of Office apps. You can read more about the Office app improvements here.
Microsoft is also launching its Copilot agents for all businesses today. Announced at Build earlier this year, the agents act like virtual employees to automate tasks. Instead of Copilot sitting idle waiting for queries like a chatbot, it will be able to actively do things like monitor email inboxes and automate a series of tasks or data entry that employees normally have to do manually.
Microsoft 365 Copilot subscribers will also have access to a new agent builder inside of Copilot Studio. “Now anyone can quickly create a Copilot agent right in BizChat or SharePoint, unlocking the value of the vast knowledge repository stored in your SharePoint files,” says Spataro. Agents are designed to show up as virtual colleagues inside of Teams or Outlook, allowing you to @ mention them and ask them questions.
