Copilot plans paid expansion alongside broader search upgrades

Microsoft announced a paid, invitation-only Microsoft 365 Copilot preview on 9 May for an initial 600 customers worldwide, following testing with 20 enterprises. The announcement doesn’t disclose a price.

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Microsoft plans Semantic Index for E3 and E5 customers, with or without Copilot. It describes mapping workplace data relationships beyond word matching.

A same-day Microsoft video description connects the index to Microsoft Graph and the Copilot System. That positions retrieval beneath both search and assistant responses.

E3 or E5 search plans therefore don’t grant automatic entry to Copilot’s paid preview. PowerPoint image generation and Outlook coaching are also announced as forthcoming additions.