Microsoft 365 apps now have an AI assistant that’s light years ahead of Clippy.
On Thursday, Microsoft announce(Opens in a new tab) Microsoft 365 Copilot, a tool that combines Large Language Models (LLMs) with 365 apps and Microsoft Graph user data into a productivity beast. Copilot works within the Microsoft 365 apps ecosystem which includes Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook and Teams. As Microsoft showed us in the announcement, it can generate ideas and create reports and documents in Word and PowerPoint by pulling information from your calendar, emails, and contact lists. In Outlook, Copilot can compose and enhance emails, and in Teams, it can summarize conversations and define tasks and appointments. The co-pilot can transcribe live meetings and create notes and summaries.
Copilot can pull data from other Microsoft applications to create text in Word.
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Microsoft also announced a new tool called Business Chat, which is a lot like Bing Chat or ChatGPT but works for you like an AI executive assistant. Like Copilot, Business Chat pulls information from your business data and apps, but it can also be accessed through Bing or Microsoft365.com(Opens in a new tab) Plus Teams with your work account.
Copilot is currently being tested with a small group of customers and will be available for Microsoft365 applications in the coming months. Microsoft hasn’t shared licensing and pricing information yet, but has said that will come soon.
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