ai avatar design

Microsoft's new animated avatar, Mico, arrives as the face of Copilot — a deliberately friendly, emoji-like companion that Microsoft says is designed to be useful without being obtrusive, a modern answer to the mixed legacy of Clippy and a direct test of whether personality can make AI...

Microsoft’s Copilot has been given a face — a playful, non‑photoreal avatar named Mico — and with it a broader strategy to make AI feel more social, collaborative, and useful on the PC and mobile devices; the move intentionally leans on nostalgia for Clippy while trying to avoid the design...