Microsoft is launching a redesigned version of Copilot today, intent on becoming an AI assistant or companion. To celebrate this, Microsoft’s new AI CEO, Mustafa Suleyman, has penned a 700-plus-word memo on what he describes as a “technological paradigm shift” toward AI models that can understand what humans see and hear.

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman announces a redesigned Copilot, which aims to revolutionise technology interactions by offering personalised, adaptive support. Positioned as a new era of technology,

Suleyman said that technology is, and must always remain, in service to humanity — “an enabler and a path to deepening our common bonds and shared understanding, our energy and imagination, our creativity and our capacity for everything from invention to forming relationships.”