Microsoft is stitching its Copilot chat, coding, and AI agent tools into one app, betting it becomes as essential as Office itself.
The redesigned Copilot app launches today after Microsoft teased it last month. It bundles three AI capabilities, chat, coding, and agents, into a single interface split across three tabs: Home, Code, and Autopilot. Home merges Copilot Chat with Cowork and serves as the default landing screen, with a planned Today feature acting as a personalized dashboard. Microsoft is also renaming Scout, the AI personal assistant it introduced at Build earlier this year, to Autopilot.
The bigger story here is consolidation. Microsoft wants Copilot to be the single front door for AI at work instead of a pile of separate features scattered across Word, Teams, and standalone assistants. That only pays off if people actually want one app that carries context across chatting, coding, and automated tasks rather than juggling several.
Scout barely had time to earn a bookmark before becoming Autopilot. A rename this fast, on a product barely months old, says more about how unsettled Microsoft's AI strategy still is than about anything users asked for.