Microsoft 365 Copilot: Your New AI Assistant

Microsoft 365 Copilot is a feature embedded within Microsoft 365 applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, etc.

Microsoft 365 Copilot is designed for enterprise customers and launched on March 16, 2023. Copilot leverages the advanced capabilities of OpenAI’s GPT-4 large language models to enhance convenience, reduce the time spent on administrative tasks, and significantly improve productivity.

Microsoft 365 Copilot works alongside the following Microsoft 365 applications:

• Word: Copilot in Word can help you create a first draft, add some content, and adjust its content to be more succinct.
• Excel: In Excel, you can use Copilot to create tables, generate graphs based on your selected data, and analyze data. It can also suggest the most suitable formulas for your question.
• PowerPoint: In PowerPoint, Copilot can draft new slides based on your topic, propose suitable templates and layouts from an Outline, discover and add relevant images to enrich your slides, and condense lengthy presentations into a more concise format by using bullet points.
• Outlook: Copilot helps you manage your emails efficiently by sorting them based on priority, analyzing intricate emails, summarizing them in easy-to-understand language, and suggesting brief, professional response emails.
• Teams: Copilot in Microsoft Teams meetings helps you summarize meeting notes, organize key discussion points, offer recaps of chat content that you missed without interruptions, create lists of pros and cons for the current meeting topic, and schedule for the next meeting.

Microsoft 365 Copilot Basic Architecture

1. Copilot receives an input prompt from a user in Microsoft 365 applications.
2. Copilot pre-processes the input prompt through Microsoft Graph and Semantic Index.
3. Copilot sends modified prompt to Large Language Model (LLM).
4. Copilot receives the response from the LLM.
5. Copilot post-processes through Microsoft Graph and Semantic Index.
6. Copilot returns the response to Microsoft 365 applications.

The key business benefits of Microsoft Copilot

1. Boosting work productivity with Microsoft Copilot. Copilot significantly reduces the time spent learning and searching for internal and external data and opens new ways to create and access large amounts of data with enterprise-level security.
2. Microsoft Copilot can significantly reduce the time spent on Microsoft applications such as when creating PowerPoint presentations.
3. Microsoft Copilot helps you summarize and automatically transcribe meeting minutes on Microsoft Teams meetings. This will reduce employee costs.
4. Microsoft Copilot in Excel empowers users to perform complex tasks, such as writing formulas and creating charts.
5. With Copilot in Outlook, you can make your email writing more professional by translating messages you receive in other languages and adjusting the tone of your message.

Copilot for Microsoft 365 is priced at $30 monthly per user with an annual subscription. The annual price is $360 per user. If users have a Microsoft 365 email account for enterprise, they can use Copilot directly through Microsoft applications.

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