Will an AI companion be your go-to for advice and support, helping you shape potential new realities in 2025?

If you’ve been thinking about AI and how it will impact your job and your future - and let’s face it, who hasn’t - you may find yourself turning to an AI personal companion for advice and support in 2025.

I’ve been tracking the rise of AI learning, coaching, mentoring and emotional and mental support apps over the last couple of years with great interest. Most are still clunky and/or siloed, and best used superficially - with a pinch of salt!

It was only a matter of time before we saw the release of an AI that gives us a sense of being better understood. Early in December, Microsoft released a preview of their voice-enabled Copilot Vision to a limited number of Pro subscribers in the US via Copilot Labs.

In a recent interview, Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, described Vision as feeling like “another digital species” with “a new plane of connection” that acts “like a second brain” and a “thought partner and companion”.