Microsoft
Makes Copilot across Windows and Microsoft 365, and its own MAI models.
- Type
- AI lab
- Last shipped
- Oct 19, 2026
Everything Microsoft shipped
October 2026
- New feature
Microsoft Copilot adds Autopilot, which takes on routine and long-running tasks for users.
- New feature
Microsoft's Copilot Notebooks can now delegate simple work to Copilot, build interactive reports, and edit Word, Excel and PowerPoint files directly.
- New feature
Microsoft's Copilot in Word can now draft contracts and review them against your organization's standards.
- New feature
Microsoft Copilot has a new Home that brings Chat and Cowork together in one experience as the starting point for work.
- Availability
Microsoft is rolling out the full power of Office, with Word, Excel and PowerPoint, inside the Copilot app for users in the Frontier program.
- New feature
Microsoft's MAI-Code-1.1-Flash model can now run on-device inside GitHub Copilot for agentic coding, with no inference charge for local model calls.
- New model
Microsoft released three new MAI models, MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming, MAI-Voice-2.1 and MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash, for developers building streaming transcription and voice agents.
- New model
Microsoft Copilot is rolling out OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Sol and Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5.5 in Cowork and Copilot Studio, with Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Chat following.
September 2026
- Launch
Microsoft released a refreshed Copilot app that brings Home, Code and Autopilot together, with new features arriving in the Frontier program.
- New model
Microsoft Copilot is rolling out Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 and OpenAI's GPT-6 Sol across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Chat, Cowork and Copilot Studio.
- New model
Microsoft Copilot is rolling out Grok models from SpaceXAI in Word, Excel and PowerPoint, starting with customers in the Frontier program.
- New feature
Microsoft Copilot Cowork and Copilot Studio can now build apps, available in the Frontier program, and Cowork works directly in your team's files.
- Availability
Atlassian Rovo is now available in Microsoft Copilot and Teams, bringing Jira and Confluence search and workflows into chat.
- New model
Microsoft added the new MAI-Image-2.6-Flash image model, alongside MAI-Image-2.6, to Microsoft Foundry for image generation and editing.
- New model
Microsoft made its MAI-Transcribe-2 transcription model available on Microsoft Foundry, describing it as 10x faster than GPT-Transcribe.
- New model
Microsoft Copilot is rolling out Claude Fable 5.1 in Copilot Cowork and Copilot Studio for eligible customers.
August 2026
- New feature
Microsoft Copilot Cowork adds effort levels in the model picker, letting users balance speed, depth and cost.
