Microsoft’s Copilot to Leave WhatsApp in the Coming Weeks

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Microsoft’s Copilot is about to lose one of its most familiar homes.

The company confirmed that its AI assistant will stop working on WhatsApp early next year, following Meta’s decision to remove all general-purpose AI chatbots from the messaging platform.

Copilot will continue operating on WhatsApp until Jan. 15, 2026, after which the chatbot will no longer function. Microsoft says the decision is not its own but a direct response to WhatsApp’s revised platform policies.

The company noted that WhatsApp’s policy update is “removing all LLM chatbots from the platform effective January 15th,” and Copilot must therefore be discontinued. The policy update restricts the WhatsApp Business API to commercial use ...