The free version of Microsoft Copilot AI Chatbot has been upgraded to GPT-4 Turbo.

Microsoft Pilot A company executive revealed on Tuesday that it has been quietly upgraded to a more advanced artificial intelligence (AI) model. With the upgrade, Copilot, the AI-powered chatbot, is now powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4 Turbo model. Both the free tier and the Pro version can now access the latest model, however, only Copilot Pro users will have the option to revert to the older GPT-4 model. In particular, the tech giant also recently revealed The launch date for its Copilot for Security platform, confirms that it will be available globally from April 1.

Mikhail Parkhin, CEO of Advertising and Web Services at Microsoft Post on X (formerly known as Twitter) on March 12, and said, “After a lot of work, GPT4-Turbo replaces GPT-4 in the Copilot free tier. Pro users still choose the old model. can, if desired (there is a toggle). This announcement comes without much fanfare, however, it is an important upgrade that will affect regular users. In particular, Copilot Pro users already have GPT- 4 can access Turbo.

For starters, the GPT-4 based Copilot had a knowledge cutoff of September 2021 but GPT-4 Turbo has knowledge base till April 2023. This will not be noticeable when searching for topics online because the AI ​​chatbot is connected to the Internet, however, for topics that cannot be easily found on the Internet, knowledge generation is expected to increase. As a result of more recent responses. In addition to the Balanced mode, support for the updated AI model has also been added to the Creative and Price modes.

GPT-4 was the turbo. introduced by the Open AI In November 2023. It comes with an increased context window of 128,000 tokens compared to GPT-4’s 8,000 tokens. The AI ​​firm said it can fit the equivalent of more than 300 pages of text into a single prompt. This means that the latest AI models can look at large sets of data to find relevant information about a prompt. Interestingly, the free tier of OpenAI’s native chatbot Chat GPT Still running on GPT 3.5 AI model.

Meanwhile, Microsoft has also revealed the launch date of its Copilot for Security platform which will be available to enterprise customers from April 1. Powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4 and Microsoft’s security models, it comes with multilingual capabilities, offering support for 25 different languages.