Microsoft announces updated Copilot for Microsoft 365 products
Yesterday evening, March 16, Microsoft announced a new AI-powered Copilot for its Microsoft 365 apps and services. It will help you write emails, create presentations, and much more.
What do we know?
The new Copilot, built on OpenAI’s GPT-4, will work alongside Microsoft 365 apps and act as an assistant that can be called up from the sidebar to help with, for example, writing text in Outlook or creating presentations in PowerPoint.
“It works with you, embedded in the apps that millions of people use every day: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and more. It’s a whole new way of working,” said Jared Spataro, general manager of Microsoft 365.
Microsoft 365 users will be able to call Copilot to provide information about an upcoming Microsoft Teams meeting, prepare people with updates on related projects, organizational changes like recent hires, and even updates on colleagues who may have returned from vacation.
Copilot can also be called in Microsoft Office applications and used in Word to create draft documents based on other files. The text generated by the AI can be freely edited and adapted. Since Copilot is essentially a chatbot, you can even ask it to create a 10-slide PowerPoint presentation based on a Word document or analyze or format Excel data.
Microsfot says it is currently testing Copilot with 20 of its customers and will expand the preview in the coming months. It will also announce pricing and details later.
