AI at Work Roadmap
Explore the newest innovations built for work, from core apps to Copilot and agents.
The AI at Work roadmap provides estimated release dates and descriptions for commercial features. All information is subject to change. As a feature or product becomes generally available, or is cancelled or postponed, information will be removed from this website. If Targeted release is available, the Rollout start date will reflect the change beginning to appear in Targeted release followed by Standard release, otherwise the Rollout start date will reflect the change beginning to appear in Standard release.
Latest announcements
October 15
Introducing Microsoft Copilot for legal
September 25
Introducing the new Copilot with Home, Code, and Autopilot
September 14
Now available: Brand Kit and Skills in Copilot in PowerPoint
September 1
Available today: Anthropic Claude Fable 5.1 in Microsoft Copilot
July 9
Available today: OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 in Microsoft 365 Copilot
June 24
Available now: New Copilot in Excel capabilities built for finance workflows
Announcing the new Work IQ APIs
Introducing Microsoft Scout
May 26
Copilot Notebooks gets smarter for Microsoft 365 Copilot users
2026 Work Trend Index Annual Report
Copilot Cowork: From conversation to action across skills, integrations, and devices
Federated Copilot connectors: Bringing real-time enterprise data within Microsoft 365 Copilot
Word: Legal Agent in Frontier
Work IQ API public preview brings Copilot intelligence into agent-to-agent communication
October 9
Introducing Office in Copilot
September 22
Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol are joining model choice in Microsoft 365 Copilot
September 4
Available today: OpenAI GPT-6 Astra in Microsoft Copilot
July 24
Available today: Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5 in Microsoft 365 Copilot
July 2
Available today: Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 5 in Microsoft 365 Copilot
June 16
Copilot Cowork is now generally available
Available today: Anthropic Claude Opus 4.8 in Microsoft 365 Copilot
Introducing Microsoft 365 Business with Copilot: The new standard for small business
Introducing a new design for Microsoft 365 Copilot
May 7
Available today: GPT-5.5 Instant in Microsoft 365 Copilot
May 1
Microsoft 365 E7 and Agent 365 are now generally available
Copilot in Outlook: New agentic experiences for email and calendar
Real-time voice agents in Microsoft Copilot Studio transform customer experience
Available today: GPT-5.5 Thinking and ChatGPT Images 2.0 in Microsoft 365 Copilot
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Now available
These features are now generally available.
- Help legal teams move complex matters forward faster with specialized legal skills built into Microsoft Copilot. Bring together documents, trusted data, and legal workflows so professionals can work with greater context and confidence while maintaining human judgment.
- Help your customers get answers, manage supported appointments, and connect with the right assistance through natural conversations. Automate routine interactions so customers can get help quickly while your teams can focus on conversations that need a human touch.
- Get more value from your organization’s content with Copilot in SharePoint. Help people use natural language to find answers, create and organize content, and run workflows, making it easier to turn your organization’s knowledge into action.
- Microsoft plugin registry gives you one place to discover, publish, manage, and govern plugins across supported Microsoft Copilot experiences. Users can more easily access enabled skills, connectors, and agents, while IT maintains centralized control over availability and access.
Coming soon
These features are currently in development.
- Copilot Managed Runtime helps you securely deploy, run, integrate, and govern apps built with Microsoft or third-party tools, bringing AI-created solutions into production faster while providing the security, governance, and lifecycle management needed at enterprise scale.
- Turn your ideas into business apps using natural language in Copilot Cowork and Copilot Studio. Describe what you need, then refine your app through conversation and connect it to your organization’s data and systems. When you publish, IT admins have centralized visibility and controls to help manage your app.
- Make decisions with confidence. Researcher brings leading AI models together with two new capabilities to refine responses from GPT with Claude with Critique, and compare GPT and Claude responses side by side with Council.
Frontier Program
Frontier is Microsoft’s early access program for experimental AI features. Try new features early, give real-time feedback, and influence what ships to all users.
New Copilot with Home, Code, and Autopilot
The new Copilot brings together Home, Code, and Autopilot to help you turn ideas into solutions, extend solution-building to your knowledge work, and automate ongoing tasks with a proactive personal agent.
Copilot Cowork: Multiple models, matched to your work
Copilot Cowork expands model choice with OpenAI GPT‑5.5 and introduces browser use, enabling you to automate tasks directly across web and business workflows. Cowork 1 will be a secure, fine‑tuned model releasing in the coming weeks, post‑trained to handle Cowork‑specific tasks. This gives you a lower‑cost option for everyday work, while Copilot continues to match each task to the best model and keep your data protected.
Copilot Notebooks: Smarter experience for Microsoft 365 Copilot users
Copilot Notebooks for Microsoft 365 users adds richer work data sources, multimodal mobile capture, and new output types like Excel workbooks and infographics to the notebook experience. This helps you bring more complete project context into one place and turn that content into deliverables faster.
AI at Work Roadmap
Explore the newest innovations built for work, from core apps to Copilot and agents.
In development
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Rolling out
Updates that are beginning to roll out and are not yet available to all applicable customers.
Launched
Fully released updates that are now generally available for applicable customers.
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