By Paul Thurrott
Publication Date: 2025-12-10 23:30:00
Microsoft published the Copilot Usage Report 2025, which it says is the industry’s largest chatbot usage study to date. The study is based on more than 37.5 million anonymized consumer Copilot chats and it provides an interesting peek at how people are really using the chatbot.
“As 2025 wraps up, we’ve gone headfirst into a mountain of de-identified data, searching for the quirks, surprises, and secret patterns that shape everyday life with Copilot,” Microsoft AI’s Bea Costa-Gomes and Seth Spielman write. “We’re finding out just how far it fits into people’s daily rhythms, and how human its uses have become: We often turn to AI for the things that matter most like our health.”
Some of the key takeaways include:
Health is the number one topic. Health is the most often discussed topic with Copilot, beating out technology/general search; society, culture, and history; language learning and translation; money; news and current events; food and drink;…
