Microsoft is consolidating its Copilot apps for consumers and businesses while discontinuing several underperforming AI features, marking a strategic pivot in its AI ambitions.

The move should cut down on the confusion between the two apps, especially for anyone who bounces back and forth between the two of them.

Microsoft is simplifying Copilot by combining its consumer and business apps, and dropping AI-generated podcasts, Group Chats, Deep Research, and its Mico character.