MathWorks Announces Generative AI-Powered MATLAB Copilot

MathWorks has launched MATLAB Copilot, a generative AI assistant for MATLAB that is intended to boost productivity and development for engineers. Available in the latest MATLAB and Simulink Release 2025b (R2025b), the new product is meant to streamline coding, debugging, and learning in the MATLAB environment.

“MATLAB Copilot continues our longstanding approach of helping our users focus on engineering and science, not programming,” says Roy Lurie, vice president of Engineering at MathWorks. “By integrating generative AI directly into existing MATLAB workflows, MATLAB Copilot strengthens MATLAB and Simulink as a platform for engineering innovation, enabling millions of engineers and scientists to design and build the most innovative engineered systems in the world.”

MATLAB Copilot offers intelligent features that support users across their development workflows, including:

• Chat and Learn: Users can ask questions in MATLAB Copilot Chat and receive answers sourced from MathWorks documentation and real-world code examples, helping them quickly access context-aware information without leaving the MATLAB environment.
• Code Smarter: As users type in the MATLAB Editor, Copilot suggests autocompletions and code predictions—or generates code from natural language descriptions.
• Understand and Improve: MATLAB Copilot explains unfamiliar code, adds comments, clarifies error messages, and generates tests using MATLAB Test. 

“MATLAB Copilot is designed to meet engineers, scientists, and researchers where they are—inside the MATLAB environment they already know and trust,” says Seth DeLand, principal product marketing manager for Generative AI at MathWorks. “It’s not just about writing code faster; it’s about making the entire development process more intuitive, more collaborative, and ultimately more empowering.”

For more info about MATLAB Copilot, visit mathworks.com/products/matlab-copilot.html

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.