Harnessing the power of AI, Microsoft 365 Copilot turns your words into the most powerful productivity tool on the planet REDMOND, Wash. — March 16, 2023 — On Thursday, Microsoft Corp. announced it is bringing the power of next-generation AI to its workplace productivity tools with Microsoft 365 Copilot. Currently, in testing with select commercial customers, Copilot combines the power of large language models (LLMs) with business data and the Microsoft 365 apps, to unleash creativity, and unlock productivity, and uplevel skills.
Microsoft Copilot – An Entire new way of Working
Microsoft 365 Copilot isn’t just a better way of doing the same things. It’s an entirely new way of working. Copilot will work alongside Microsoft 365 customers in two ways: First, it is embedded in the Microsoft 365 apps people use every day — Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and more.
Today, the company also announced an entirely new experience: Business Chat. Business Chat works across the LLM, the Microsoft 365 apps, and a customer’s calendar, emails, chats, documents, meetings, and contacts to do things that people weren’t able to do before.
With natural language prompts like “tell my team how we updated the product strategy,” Business Chat will generate a status update based on the morning’s meetings, emails, and chat threads.
Customer Control through Microsoft Copilot
With Copilot, the customer is always in control. Customers decide what to keep, modify or discard. With these new tools, people can be more creative in Word, more analytical in Excel, more expressive in PowerPoint, more productive in Outlook, and more collaborative in Teams.
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“Copilot combines the power of large language models with your data and apps to turn your words into the most powerful productivity tool on the planet,” said Jared Spataro, corporate vice president, of Modern Work, and Business Applications, Microsoft.
New Era of Computing
Copilot marks a new era of computing that will fundamentally transform the way we work.” Copilot in Word writes, edits, summarizes, and creates right alongside people as they work. Copilot in PowerPoint enables the creation process by turning ideas into a designed presentation through natural language commands. Copilot in Excel helps unlock insights, identify trends, or create professional-looking data visualizations in a fraction of the time.
In Outlook, Copilot can help synthesize and manage the inbox to allow more time to be spent on actually communicating. Copilot in Teams makes meetings more productive with real-time summaries and action items directly in the context of the conversation.
Copilot in Business Chat
Business Chat brings together data from across documents, presentations, emails, calendars, notes, and contacts. Also, it helps summarize chats, writes emails, finds key dates, or even write a plan based on other project files. Microsoft has built Microsoft 365 Copilot with its existing commitments to data security and privacy in the enterprise. Grounded in AI principles and Responsible AI Standards and decades of research. Copilot’s large language models are not trained on customer content or individual prompts.
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Microsoft 365 Copilot will deliver enterprise-ready AI at scale. Earlier this month Microsoft announced Dynamics 365 Copilot as the world’s first AI Copilot in both CRM and ERP to bring the next-generation AI to every line of business.
And now, Copilot is coming to all Microsoft productivity apps — Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, Microsoft Viva, Power Platform, and more. SpecMicrosoft 365 Copilot is already being tested with a small group of customers to get critical feedback to improve.
