Microsoft Revamps Copilot as AI Spending Scrutiny Grows

Microsoft (MSFT) is overhauling Copilot with a stronger focus on enterprise customers, rolling out a unified assistant that combines consumer and workplace capabilities while giving companies more control over how employees use and pay for artificial intelligence.

The redesign has been in development for roughly six months and begins rolling out through Microsoft’s Frontier program.

The new Copilot app is organized around several major features.

Home brings together Chat and Cowork, while Code lets users build and run software using GitHub Copilot technology. Autopilot, previously called Scout, functions as a persistent agent designed to act proactively for users.

But the most important addition for large companies may be FinOps for AI.

Microsoft says the tool is designed to help organizations track AI usage, control spending and connect that spending to business value.

FinOps for AI is a shared discipline for managing AI spend and optimizing it for business value, said Jared Spataro,…