MICROSOFT LAUNCHES EDGE COPILOT MODE AS AI COMES TO THE BROWSER FRONTLINE

Microsoft is rolling out a new Copilot mode in its Edge browser, marking the latest step in the company's mission to bring generative AI directly into everyday user workflows.

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The update adds a powerful AI assistant into the browser sidebar, enabling real-time summaries, writing assistance, web search enhancements, and contextual content generation—all powered by OpenAl's models running on Microsoft's Azure infrastructure. With this move, Microsoft becomes the latest major tech player to bring Al deeper into the web browsing experience, following similar initiatives by Google with its Gemini-powered Chrome experiments and Arc's browser-integrated Al tools. But with Edge Copilot, Microsoft is uniquely positioned to capitalize on its full-stack advantage across operating systems, productivity software, and enterprise cloud.

EDGE COPILOT MODE: WHAT IT DOES

Edge Copilot is more than a chatbot—it acts as an Al co-navigator, offering users tailored suggestions, instant webpage analysis, email and document drafting, and even real-time comparisons when shopping online. Users can ask Copilot to summarize long articles, rewrite paragraphs, explain unfamiliar terms, or compare products based on live page data.