Microsoft has introduced its new Copilot Pages feature, designed as a platform for “multiplayer AI collaboration.”
Copilot Pages enables users to interact with Microsoft’s Copilot chatbot and bring its responses into a shared page, where multiple users can collaboratively edit the content in real-time.
“You and your team can work together on a page with Copilot, seeing everyone’s contributions live and collaborating with Copilot as a partner, adding content from your data, files, and the web to your page,” explained Jared Spataro, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of AI at work.
“This represents a completely new way of working—combining human-to-AI-to-human collaboration in a multiplayer environment.”
Copilot Pages begins rolling out to Microsoft 365 Copilot customers today and will become generally available to all subscribers later this month.
It builds upon Microsoft’s previous work with Loop, a competitor to Notion, which features modular, Lego-like Office documents for collaborative tasks.
One of the key features of Copilot Pages is the ability to share pages via a link, allowing colleagues to join in and edit just as they would with a shared Word document.
Pages can also be embedded into other pages as components. Because it’s integrated with Microsoft’s BizChat, a work hub for Copilot, users can pull in data from the web or from internal files to create various project materials, such as meeting notes, business pitches, or project plans.
Microsoft envisions Copilot Pages as a new model of working, integrating both human and AI input into a unified canvas.
Moreover, Copilot Pages is now being extended to over 400 million people who can access Microsoft’s free Copilot chatbot when signed in with a business Microsoft Entra account.
This move is part of Microsoft’s broader initiative to enhance Copilot for business, which includes improving the AI assistant across various Office applications.
In addition to Copilot Pages, Microsoft is also launching its Copilot agents for businesses today. These agents, first announced at the Build conference earlier this year, function like virtual employees, automating routine tasks.
Unlike a passive chatbot that waits for queries, these agents will proactively handle tasks like monitoring email inboxes or automating data entry processes that would otherwise require manual input from employees.
Subscribers to Microsoft 365 Copilot will also gain access to a new agent builder within Copilot Studio.
“Anyone can now quickly create a Copilot agent directly within BizChat or SharePoint, unlocking the full potential of the vast knowledge stored in your SharePoint files,” Spataro noted.
These agents will appear as virtual colleagues within apps like Teams or Outlook, allowing users to interact with them by simply @ mentioning the agent to ask questions or delegate tasks.
