for the first time.
Microsoft finally released its Copilot AI Assistant as an app for macOS. It took two years, but the wait was worth it. The app can be downloaded for free right now from the Mac App Store.
Microsoft’s iPad Copilot was briefly available as a Mac application, but was quickly removed. Mac users have had a web-based user interface for some time.
Copilot was first launched on the web, in web browsers like Edge (obviously), before moving onto iOS and Android devices last year. It has been integrated into all kinds of Microsoft software.
The Copilot app follows the trend started by ChatGPT, Anthropic and others to bring native apps to macOS. It also allows a keyboard shortcut that is OS-wide to start a chat at any moment. It has many of the same uses: translating or summarizing texts, answering questions or preparing documents and reports, solving coding issues or generating scripts or brainstorming.
Copilot uses OpenAI models such as GPT-4 and DALL-E 3 alongside Microsoft’s own Prometheus. Microsoft has invested a lot of money in OpenAI over the last few years to use as a basis for Copilot, and pretty much everything in its AI strategy.
Copilot for macOS, like Apple’s own AI-generative features, requires a Mac M1 or later. Users must also run macOS 14 and later.
