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From next January 15Microsoft Copilot will no longer be available on WhatsApp. The decision, confirmed by Microsoft itself, is not an isolated event, but the last piece of a domino effect that has already taken over other popular assistants such as Luzia or ChatGPT. What is presented on paper as a “change in platform policies” is, in practice, a textbook strategic maneuver. And it is that Meta is eliminating the competition in one fell swoop to leave the way free for your own bet, Meta AI.

Until now, WhatsApp had served as a neutral ground where different companies could deploy their chatbots through the WhatsApp Business API. However, the new rules of the game imposed by Mark Zuckerberg’s company explicitly prohibit the use of this API for general-purpose AI assistants. This restriction forces users who want to continue using Copilot to migrate to the dedicated Microsoft app or its web version, losing along the way something as valuable as conversation history, which cannot be transferred.

Meta AI is the only chatbot that will remain

The void left by these tools will not be deserted. Meta AI, the company’s own assistant, is already integrated natively (and often intrusively) into the WhatsApp interface. By ousting rivals like OpenAI and Microsoft, Meta ensures that its artificial intelligence has no direct competition within the world’s most used messaging app.

Curiously, the outcry from users in the face of this digital purge has been practically non-existent. The lack of massive complaints reveals a reality that technology companies sometimes forget. For the vast majority, WhatsApp remains fundamentally a tool for talking to friends and familynot a work center to use AI. In fact, Copilot (like the rest of the chatbots integrated into WhatsApp) was a fairly basic implementation, without such interesting functions as Copilot Voice, which is only available in official apps.