Microsoft Copilot Enhancements: AI Image Editing and Visual Interface Overhaul Unveiled

Microsoft has unveiled a significant update to its AI assistant platform, Copilot, marking one year since its launch. This update brings a fresh design overhaul aimed at enhancing the platform’s usability, introducing what Microsoft describes as a “streamlined look and feel.” Among the key changes is the addition of a carousel feature, showcasing prompt suggestions to assist users in exploring the capabilities of the AI tool.

This revamped user interface is now accessible across the Copilot website and its Android and iOS applications. Notably, alongside the visual enhancements, Copilot has gained the ability to edit images generated by the AI, adding a new dimension to its functionality. Microsoft announced these improvements via a blog post, emphasizing the redesigned interface’s role in facilitating idea generation and knowledge acquisition.

The updated homepage on the Copilot website offers a cleaner appearance, featuring a prominent Copilot logo at the top, followed by a visual carousel displaying AI-generated images and accompanying text prompts. Additionally, users will find a text field at the bottom for submitting queries. In the words of Microsoft, “Today when you visit Copilot, you will see a more streamlined look and feel designed to help you bring your ideas to life and more easily gain understanding about the world.”

Besides the redesigned interface, Microsoft has also added a new tool to Copilot called Designer that can make in-line editing to the images generated. This allows users to customise the image or make changes to it without needing to leave the chat window. The editing tool can highlight an object, enhance the colours, blur the background, and reimagine the image in a different art style. All of these features are available on the free version of the tool.

Copilot Pro subscribers will also be able to resize and regenerate images between square and landscape without leaving the chat, in addition to the above-mentioned capabilities. “We will soon roll out our new Designer GPT inside Copilot, which offers an immersive, dedicated canvas inside of Copilot where you can visualise your ideas,” added the tech giant.

Microsoft will also be making ads for the Super Bowl, the championship game of the National Football League (NFL) in the US, after being absent for four years. The company announced that this year’s ads will focus on people’s “watch me” moments with Copilot where the capabilities of the tool will be showcased.