This week’s Copilot Weekly covers the most significant shift in Microsoft’s AI strategy since the initial Copilot launch — the transition to Wave 3, where Copilot stops being an assistant and becomes an autonomous execution platform.
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What Happened This Week
- Microsoft 365 E7 (“Frontier Suite”) GA — A new licensing tier above E5 bundling Copilot, Agent 365, and Entra Suite at $99/user/month
- Copilot Cowork GA — Long-running, multi-step agentic task execution across Microsoft 365, with usage-based Copilot Credits billing
- Multi-model everywhere — Claude Sonnet 5, Claude Opus 4.8, Kimi K2.7 Code, and Microsoft’s own MAI-Code-1-Flash now available across Copilot Chat, Cowork, and GitHub Copilot
- Agent 365 GA — Centralized agent governance control plane with shadow AI detection, now deployed at KPMG across 276,000 seats
- GitHub Copilot CLI maturation — JetBrains migration to CLI as default agent harness, Rubber Duck cross-model critic, autonomous agent mode for Enterprise customers
- SMB permanent SKUs — Business Standard with Copilot at $23.50/user/month, Business Premium with Copilot at $32/user/month
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