Microsoft’s management introduced a new Artificial Intelligence-powered Copilot for its Microsoft 365 apps and services on Thursday.
The Copilot, an AI-powered tool, can help users create documents, emails, presentations, and much more.
“Today, we are bringing the power of next-generation AI to work. Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot — your copilot for work. It combines the power of large language models (LLMs) with your data in the Microsoft Graph and the Microsoft 365 apps to turn your words into the most powerful productivity tool on the planet,” the company announced on its website.
The Copilot, powered by GPT-4 from OpenAI, “is integrated into Microsoft 365 in two ways. It works alongside you, embedded in the Microsoft 365 apps you use every day — Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams and more — to unleash creativity, unlock productivity and uplevel skills,” the tech giant says.
“Today marks the next major step in the evolution of how we interact with computing, which will fundamentally change the way we work and unlock a new wave of productivity growth,” said Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO, Microsoft. “With our new Copilot for work, we’re giving people more agency and making technology more accessible through the most universal interface — natural language,” it added.
The company further stated, “Today we’re also announcing an entirely new experience: Business Chat. Business Chat works across the LLM, the Microsoft 365 apps, and your data — your calendar, emails, chats, documents, meetings and contacts — to do things you’ve never been able to do before. You can give it natural language prompts like ‘Tell my team how we updated the product strategy,” and it will generate a status update based on the morning’s meetings, emails and chat threads.’”
According to Microsoft, the Microsoft 365 Copilot will transform work in three ways: unleash creativity, unlock productivity and uplevel skills
“Unleash creativity. With Copilot in Word, you can jump-start the creative process so you never start with a blank slate again,” is said, adding that “Copilot gives you a first draft to edit and iterate on — saving hours in writing, sourcing, and editing time.”