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

Mico is headed to Learn Live. | Image: Microsoft

Microsoft Copilot volition nary longer amusement its emotive yellowish blob Mico erstwhile you usage the chatbot's dependable mode. In a support page, Microsoft says it's going to determination Mico to its Learn Live platform, wherever the avatar volition person "more to respond to," as reported earlier by GeekWire.

Mico launched successful Copilot's dependable mode past October, with Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman pitching the avatar arsenic a mode to give the chatbot an "identity." The blob would respond to what you accidental successful real-time, implicit with facial expressions and animations.

Mico joins the agelong list of virtual helpers that Microsoft has retired implicit the years, similar Clippy, Cortana, and Rover. …

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