Microsoft lifts restrictions on Copilot chat and AI reasoning for free users

Last month, Microsoft made the OpenAI o1 reasoning AI model free for all Copilot users. However, there were message limits for free users. Now, those limits have been lifted in the Think Deeper feature, as well as the time limit on voice communication with Copilot via the Voice in Copilot feature.

Image source: Microsoft

«

Unlimited use of Copilot Voice and Think Deeper comes two years after Microsoft first launched Copilot in Bing, and just a month after the company changed its Copilot Pro subscription to include Office AI features in Microsoft 365.

Microsoft continues to offer users a $20 per month Copilot Pro subscription. The company promises that paid users “will retain privileged access to our latest models during peak usage, early access to experimental AI features, and additional use of Copilot in select Microsoft 365 apps like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.”

The company noted that it will talk about the mentioned experimental features, which paid subscribers will get early access to, “soon.” It’s very likely that we’re talking about GPT-4.5 — a Microsoft insider recently hinted that the new advanced model will be released this week. And the release of GPT-5 is just around the corner.