Microsoft is launching a new pay-as-you-go plan for corporate customers that bundles together several of the company's existing AI-powered productivity features for Microsoft 365.

Microsoft on Wednesday rolled out a chat service allowing businesses to use on-demand AI agents for routine tasks, betting on the pay-as-you-go model to drive up the adoption of the technology. The free service,

Microsoft is relaunching its free Copilot for businesses as Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat today, complete with the ability to use AI agents. Copilot Chat is Microsoft’s latest attempt to get people used to using AI at work and relying on it enough to tempt them into paying $30 per month to get the full Microsoft 365 Copilot.

On Wednesday, Microsoft launched Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat which builds on the traditional free Microsoft 365 Copilot chat experience, introducing pay-as-you-go agents that can automate repetitive tasks.

Microsoft is adding a new wrinkle to Microsoft 365 Copilot, its AI service for businesses, with a free chat experience that includes the ability to create and use AI agents on a pay-as-you-go basis inside organizations.

Microsoft has introduced Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, a new AI-powered tool that integrates free and pay-as-you-go agents into its existing free chat experience for Microsoft 365 commercial customers.

Microsoft (MSFT) announced a revamp of its artificial intelligence (AI) features for enterprise customers. Microsoft's chief marketing officer Jared Spataro joins Tech Editor Dan Howley to outline how the company's business AI features are evolving and what this means for enterprise users.

Microsoft has added a “pay-as-you-go” option to access AI agents alongside its free M365 Copilot Chat plan. M365 Copilot Chat is a chat interface powered by OpenAI’s GPT4o that serves up responses based on web data (rather than information held in the Microsoft Graph,