Microsoft is adding a new wrinkle to Microsoft 365 Copilot, its AI service for businesses, with a free chat experience that includes the ability to create and use AI agents on a pay-as-you-go basis inside organizations.

Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat is essentially a rebranding of what was once Bing Chat Enterprise before Microsoft rebranded it to just Copilot. It crucially now includes access to Cop

M365 Copilot Chat is a chat interface powered by OpenAI’s GPT4o that serves up responses based on web data (rather than information held in the Microsoft Graph, as per the paid M365 Copilot subscription). It also includes features such as Copilot Pages and image generation, as well as data protection and IT admin controls at no cost to users.

The technology provider said the offering serves as an “on-ramp” for organizations looking to deploy agentic AI.

Moveworks, a leading generative AI assistant for employee support, today announced an expansion of its strategic alliance with Microsoft that will allow employees to access Moveworks as an agent within Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft Teams.