The three pillars of the 365 Copilot product Microsoft said that Copilot won’t always get responses right, however, right but can give you a head start. The team behind it said Copilot was designed as a connected system with “grounding” built into the underlying LLM, a technique designed to improve prompt quality to generate relevant and actionable results. Instead, the AI is built off what it describes as ‘the Copilot System’ – a combination of 365 apps, Microsoft Graphs and a large language model, which the company did not name. Microsoft said Copilot isn’t just OpenAI’s ChatGPT plugged into Word.

Image: MicrosoftĬopilot is also available via a new platform, Business Chat, which can generate things like status updates on meetings based on a user’s email, chats, documents and meetings.īusiness chat can be accessed via the Microsoft 365 website, Bing or Teams chats. Outlook users can generate emails for plans and meetings.

And the AI tool can produce real-time summaries from Teams calls.

Users can generate presentations via a text prompt, for example, “make a presentation about my daughter's graduation.”Ĭopilot in Word can write and summarize text, and Copilot in Excel can identify trends or create professional-looking data visualizations. Generative AI tools are coming to Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel, Microsoft has announced during the launch of its Microsoft 365 Copilot productivity tool.ĭuring a virtual press conference, the company showcased the new offering, which is integrated into platforms like Word and PowerPoint.

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