If you’ve been looking for an alternative to ChatGPT on your smartphone, Microsoft snuck in a silent farewell to 2023 by releasing their Bing Chat app as Copilot for Android and iOS. That also after renaming it from Bing Chat.
Your AI ‘copilot’ in your pocket
If you’ve been using the ChatGPT app since its release, the Copilot app looks similar to it. A simple yet friendly UI to generate text, images, and answering your questions. Plus, it’s no longer coupled to the Bing Chat app.
You know how you have to pay to use OpenAI’s new GPT4 LLM (large language model) with ChatGPT? Well, you have the option to use it in the Copilot app for no extra cost. That also opens up access to DALL-E3 for creating images.
If you’re wondering if it supports Arabic, I gave it a try and it responded in Arabic as well. I’ll let the native speakers be the judge of its response.
While you can use it without any sign-in additional features open up when you use your Microsoft account. After all, the company did invest significatnly into the parent company OpenAI.
Probably the biggest surprise was that there was no large-scale fanfare for its release, and it first came out on Android. This was followed by the iOS release before switching over to 2024.
If you wanted a more flowery description of the Copilot app itself,
Improve Your Productivity with Copilot–Your AI-Powered Chat Assistant
Copilot is a pioneering chat assistant from Microsoft powered by the latest OpenAI models, GPT-4 and DALL·E 3. These advanced AI technologies provide fast, complex, and precise responses, as well as the ability to create breathtaking visuals from simple text descriptions.
Chat and create all in one place—for free!
You can download it from the Apple App Store and Google Play for free, and even try it via desktop web using Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge.