Edge is turning into an AI browser with the new Copilot Mode for task automation
Microsoft is piloting a new Copilot Mode in its Microsoft Edge browser, aiming to turn it into a more AI powered experience similar to the direction other recent alternatives have started to pursue, like Perplexity with its Comet browser or The Browser Company with Dia. This experimental and optional mode lets Microsoft Copilot search across all open tabs to assist with tasks like content comparison, summarization, and decision making. Users can ask it to compare hotel options, identify the best product from multiple pages, or follow up with actions through its built-in chat interface.
The chatbot is now embedded in the new tab page for quicker access, and Microsoft plans to let Copilot access browser history and credentials (with permission) to help book reservations or revisit past activity through topic-based browsing journeys.
These additions build upon Microsoft's prior work with Copilot Vision and its broader AI integration in Edge. The company plans to extend Copilot's capabilities by organizing browsing history into topic-based journeys so users can resume previous activities or surface relevant information. While Copilot Mode is currently free, some features have usage limits, suggesting possible future monetization models for these AI capabilities.
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External links
- Introducing Copilot Mode in Edge: A new way to browse the webMicrosoft Edge Blog • Official source
- Satya Nadella's Thread on X@satyanadella on X • Official source
- Microsoft Edge transforms into an AI browser with new Copilot ModeThe Verge
- Microsoft launches new Copilot Mode in Edge as AI reignites browser competitionGeekWire
- Microsoft launches AI-based Copilot Mode in Edge browserReuters
- Microsoft is testing its own AI browser via Copilot Mode for EdgePCWorld
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So they are just admitting they want to have their personal proxy sit with users and control how they use THEIR computer THEY bought with THEIR money with it in THEIR home. This is literally just an even more annoy Clippy.
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You think Microsoft will resist not using AI to increase its marketing profits?
I guess I took long enough to switch to Zorin because I always looked for excuses to continue with MS, but seing now how stuff is more and more "forced" for native integration and usage (login credentials with ms account, copilot pretty much everywhere integrated "by default" also their "recall" project, etc), the reasons to stay with MS become less significant in a progressively abridging time frame. Farewell, MS. It's bee a wild ride since 3.1 but things starts to become very messy - very quickly. And personal data becomes more and more vulnerable every day. Adding AI to "brows open tabs to help in decisions and acessing history and credentials" is more than a red flag. It really is a callout. Good luck with that.
Whether AI has matured or not, Microsoft is going all in regardless, getting rid of jobs and forcing Copilot upon us wherever they can. Taking a leaf out of Perplexity's playbook MS is now messing around with the browser. I just want simple navigation.
It won't work well - it's Microsoft.
"AI agents will become the primary way we interact with computers in the future" said Nadella, and he comes from the long lineage of Microsoft CEOs that completely failed at smartphones, totally missed social networks, superbly ignored streaming, invested massively in metaverse, and tough 640KB of memory was enough (well, there is not proof of the latter). But maybe, for the very first time, Microsoft is right.
The day AI horse shit becomes the way I am supposed to interact with my computer will be the day I stop using it and get rid of it.