Microsoft has released its digital AI assistant Copilot as a standalone app for macOS users in the US, UK, and Canada. The app is available in the Mac App Store. Macs are currently the most widely used AI-powered computers in the world.
Copilot for macOS requires a Mac with an Apple M1 series processor or later and macOS 14 Sonoma or later. The app supports dark mode. It also claims to support a shortcut to activate the AI assistant using the Command + Space keyboard shortcut, much like the Alt + Space launch command in the Windows version of Copilot.
The iPad version of Copilot will be updated with split-screen support. Copilot will also allow you to sign in to your iPhone or iPad using your Apple ID. You can upload text or PDF files, ask questions about documents, or ask the AI assistant to create a summary of them. The document summary feature will soon be available in the Copilot app for macOS.
Copilot’s launch on macOS comes just days after Microsoft made Copilot’s Voice and Think Deeper features free and unlimited. Think Deeper (powered by OpenAI’s o1) and Voice in Copilot previously had restrictions for free users, but Microsoft has now removed those restrictions to allow Copilot users to have rich conversations with the AI assistant.
Finally, we will add that recently it became known that last year, Apple supplied more than half of all computers with AI accelerators. So Microsoft has now effectively released Copilot for most AI PCs in the world.