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Microsoft retires Mico avatar from Copilot chatbot

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Microsoft is retiring the Mico avatar from its Copilot chatbot, less than a year after its introduction. The emotive yellow blob, designed to give Copilot an identity and react in real-time, will be moved to Microsoft's Learn Live platform. This change is part of Microsoft's broader strategy to merge its Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot applications and follows a recent AI leadership reshuffling. AI

IMPACT This change signals a shift in how Microsoft intends to present its AI assistants, moving away from emotive avatars towards a more integrated experience.

RANK_REASON Product change for an existing AI assistant, not a new model release or core research.

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Microsoft retires Mico avatar from Copilot chatbot

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COVERAGE [3]

  1. The Verge — AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Emma Roth ·

    Microsoft’s Clippy-like Mico character is no longer the face of Copilot

    Microsoft Copilot will no longer show its emotive yellow blob, Mico, when you use the chatbot's voice mode. In a support page, Microsoft says it's going to move Mico to its Learn Live platform, where the avatar will have "more to react to," as reported earlier by GeekWire. Mico l…

  2. Mastodon — sigmoid.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Microsoft's Clippy-like Mico character is no longer the face of Copilot https://www.theverge.com/tech/979871/microsoft-copilot-mico-retired # Tech # AI # Micros

    Microsoft's Clippy-like Mico character is no longer the face of Copilot https://www.theverge.com/tech/979871/microsoft-copilot-mico-retired # Tech # AI # Microsoft

    LINKS theverge.com/…/microsoft-copilot-mico-ret…
  3. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 Svenska(SV) · [email protected] ·

    Mico is not completely scrapped, but will continue to exist on another platform. # AI Microsoft removes its Mico character from Copilot

    Mico skrotas dock inte helt och hållet utan får fortsätta existera på en annan plattform. # AI Microsoft plockar bort sin Mico-figur från Copilot

    LINKS pcforalla.se/…/microsoft-plockar-bort-sin…

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