What you should know
- Copilot Vision is a brand new characteristic that lets Copilot browse the web with you.
- Copilot may help focus on content material on the web and even work together with some web sites.
- Copilot Vision is now out there in preview for Copilot Pro subscribers.
Earlier this 12 months, Microsoft introduced a brand new characteristic coming quickly to Copilot referred to as Copilot Vision that might let it browse the net alongside you, viewing every little thing do and permitting it to remark and assist with content material on the web. Today, Copilot Vision is now out there to check out in preview, however provided that you pay for it.
Copilot Vision is certainly one of few Copilot options that requires an lively subscription to Copilot Pro. The Copilot Pro subscription will run you $20 a month, and provides you entry to Copilot in Office apps, precedence entry throughout peak instances, and now Copilot Vision. The Copilot Vision preview is just out there within the U.S. for now, and is rolling out in restricted waves.
Here’s how Microsoft explains what Copilot Vision is all about:
“Copilot can now perceive the total context of what you’re doing on-line. When you select to allow Copilot Vision, it sees the web page you are on, it reads together with you, and you’ll discuss via the issue you are going through collectively. Browsing now not must be a lonely expertise with simply you and all of your tabs.”
Microsoft says Copilot Vision is constructed with privateness and safety in thoughts. It’s a wholly opt-in expertise, that means you don’t have to show it on should you don’t wish to. Additionally, all the information Copilot Vision sees is straight away deleted as soon as your session is completed. It does require an lively web connection to perform.
In this preliminary Copilot Vision preview, the characteristic will solely work on sure web sites. It’s additionally promising that the information it sees from content material on-line will not be used to coach AI fashions. Copilot Vision is a part of Microsoft Edge and would not require a Copilot+ PC because the AI processing is dealt with within the cloud.