The AI assistance tool Copilot seems unable to catch up with competitors in attaining equivalent levels of popularity. Newcomer technology newsletter reports that Copilot usage has stayed at 20 million weekly users throughout the past year yet ChatGPT from OpenAI has reached 400 million weekly users at its peak.
According to Newcomer Microsoft’s senior financial chief Amy Hood revealed the data in March at an annual executive meeting which implies concerns regarding Microsoft’s proposed AI direction. Microsoft applies OpenAI model technology to create Copilot but the company faces problems because users show less enthusiasm for this assistant than for ChatGPT. Microsoft integrated Copilot across various products including Windows 11 and Microsoft 365 while Edge is no exception yet the move failed to generate additional user base expansion.
They chose to acquire Inflection AI as well as its leadership team led by Mustafa Suleyman to reform Copilot while decreasing OpenAI dependence and develop a genuine consumer-oriented assistant. As the CEO of Microsoft AI, Suleyman has completed his work by redesigning Copilot and implementing various new features that enable AI functions such as direct website actions. A unified vision seems to be forming here yet it lacks understanding among Windows platform users.
Microsoft provided significant funding to OpenAI while receiving unique access to its models in order to develop competitive technologies against Google. The first arrival of ChatGPT has successfully transformed users into AI consumers more so than any other AI technology. Most users first encountered AI assistance through ChatGPT so they remain uncertain about what features in Microsoft Copilot can potentially divert them away from the original system.
