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Microsoft Launches 365 Premium with Copilot AI Assistant

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Date Published
1 Oct 2025
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3 Oct 2025, 01:16 pm

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As Microsoft aims to simplify and integrate its AI offerings.

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Microsoft's introduction of 365 Premium with the Copilot AI assistant signifies a strategic move to deepen AI integration into its core suite of applications such as Outlook, Excel, and Word. This development comes amid a competitive race among technology firms to capitalize on advanced AI tools by embedding them into consumer products. The new package offers exclusive features and enhanced security, indicating a focus on improving user experience and AI utilization. While this advancement in AI capability shows Microsoft's investment in AI-enabled productivity tools, it does not directly address existential or catastrophic risks commonly discussed in AI safety discourse.

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Microsoft has unveiled Microsoft 365 Premium for individuals that bundles the company's Copilot artificial intelligence assistant across apps, including Outlook, Excel and Word. The launch marks a shift to simplify and integrate the company's AI offerings more deeply into core products for individual users at a time when technology firms are racing to monetise their investments in advanced AI tools. The company said the plan includes its highest Copilot usage limits and exclusive features such as Researcher, Analyst and Actions, combined with one-terabyte of cloud storage and Microsoft Defender advanced security. The company will stop selling Copilot Pro and existing Copilot Pro and Microsoft 365 Personal or Family customers can switch to Premium. Microsoft, which also has a free version of Copilot, had launched its Copilot Pro at US$20 per month last year. OpenAI also offers its ChatGPT Plus for US$20 (A$30) per month. Microsoft added that Personal and Family subscribers will get higher Copilot usage limits to select Copilot features at no extra cost.