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Makes Copilot across Windows and Microsoft 365, and its own MAI models.

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AI lab
Last shipped
Oct 19, 2026
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Everything Microsoft shipped

October 2026

  1. New feature

    Microsoft Copilot adds Autopilot, which takes on routine and long-running tasks for users.

  2. New feature

    Microsoft's Copilot Notebooks can now delegate simple work to Copilot, build interactive reports, and edit Word, Excel and PowerPoint files directly.

  3. New feature

    Microsoft's Copilot in Word can now draft contracts and review them against your organization's standards.

  4. New feature

    Microsoft Copilot has a new Home that brings Chat and Cowork together in one experience as the starting point for work.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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

  1. Launch

    Microsoft released a refreshed Copilot app that brings Home, Code and Autopilot together, with new features arriving in the Frontier program.

  2. 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.

  3. New model

    Microsoft Copilot is rolling out Grok models from SpaceXAI in Word, Excel and PowerPoint, starting with customers in the Frontier program.

  4. 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.

  5. Availability

    Atlassian Rovo is now available in Microsoft Copilot and Teams, bringing Jira and Confluence search and workflows into chat.

  6. 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.

  7. New model

    Microsoft made its MAI-Transcribe-2 transcription model available on Microsoft Foundry, describing it as 10x faster than GPT-Transcribe.

  8. New model

    Microsoft Copilot is rolling out Claude Fable 5.1 in Copilot Cowork and Copilot Studio for eligible customers.

August 2026

  1. New feature

    Microsoft Copilot Cowork adds effort levels in the model picker, letting users balance speed, depth and cost.

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