Microsoft Drops Copilot's Emotive Avatar Mico After Less Than a Year
tomwarren · x · 2026-08-14
Microsoft will no longer display its emotive yellow blob, Mico, in Copilot's voice mode. Launched last October and pitched by Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman as a way to give the chatbot an identity, the avatar is now being retired from the main consumer app.
Microsoft stated that Mico will be moved to its Learn Live platform. The change aligns with Microsoft's broader efforts to merge its Copilot experiences and follows a recent AI division reshuffle where Jacob Andreou took charge of Copilot.
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