Microsoft Copilot will become a local native app in Windows

Microsoft is turning Copilot in Windows into a native app, which could run locally very soon. The enhancement was discovered in the Windows Insider Program, and shared on Reddit, with tech enthusiast @phantomofearth confirming it too.

Copilot will have a fully native WinUI UX, including the chat and all of its abilities, which means the AI model should be much faster from then on.

Being a native app means the app should also be able to run locally without having to rely on the Cloud for the job. It will instead rely on the device’s NPU to complete tasks and provide answers—all of these, of course, at a formidable speed.

For now, the enhancement is only available to Insiders, but Microsoft should release it to all Windows users later this year.

However, the AI model will not help you with all tasks. For example, Copilot was recently updated to stop providing ways to illegally activate Windows and Office after users found out it could do so.