Microsoft’s AI chatbot Copilot will not be available on WhatsApp after January 15, the company has shared. After that date, users on WhatsApp won’t be able to chat with the AI unless they switch to Microsoft’s own Copilot mobile app or use a chatbot. web,
company Explained It is removing Copilot from the popular messaging app to comply with WhatsApp’s revised platform policies announced last month,
At the time, the Meta-owned messenger said it would no longer support general-purpose AI chatbots using its WhatsApp Business API to serve its customers. Instead, he wanted to reserve those resources for other types of businesses. This change does not mean that businesses cannot use AI to serve their customers. However, this eliminates WhatsApp as a channel for AI chatbot distribution, which will impact companies like Microsoft. OpenAI, distressAnd others.
OpenAI was already announced It plans to shut down WhatsApp integration in January.
Unfortunately for Co-Pilot users on WhatsApp, their chat history is not preserved when they make the move to Microsoft’s platform because access to the chatbot on WhatsApp was unauthenticated. Microsoft recommends users who need to retain their conversations for future reference to export them using WhatsApp’s built-in tools before the January 15 deadline.
