Microsoft 365 Copilot: An AI-powered workplace productivity tool 

Microsoft has announced it is bringing the power of next-generation AI to its workplace productivity tools with Microsoft 365 Copilot. Currently, in testing with select commercial customers, Copilot combines the power of large language models (LLMs) with business data and the Microsoft 365 apps, to unleash creativity, and unlock productivity and uplevel skills.

Customers will experience Microsoft 365 Copilot in two ways –

Microsoft 365 Copilot isn’t just a better way of doing the same things. It’s an entirely new way of working. Copilot will work alongside Microsoft 365 customers in two ways:

• First, it is embedded in the Microsoft 365 apps people use every day — Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams and more.
• The company also announced an entirely new experience: Business Chat. Business Chat works across the LLM, the Microsoft 365 apps, and a customer’s calendar, emails, chats, documents, meetings and contacts to do things that people weren’t able to do before. With natural language prompts like “tell my team how we updated the product strategy,” Business Chat will generate a status update based on the morning’s meetings, emails and chat threads.

Naim Yazbeck, General Manager, Microsoft UAE said “Copilot is not just any ordinary tool – it is the catalyst for a revolutionary new era of work that will enable businesses to achieve unprecedented levels of success. As part of our unwavering commitment to empowering organizations across the UAE, we are excited to launch this game-changing AI-powered productivity tool to the market. By harnessing the full potential of large language models, Copilot will completely transform the way we work.

It will not only boost productivity and unlock creativity for businesses of all sizes and industries but also pave the way for new and innovative ways of working that will drive growth and competitiveness across the UAE and beyond. This is just the beginning, and we cannot wait to see the profound impact that Copilot will have on businesses and industries, propelling them towards new heights of excellence and success.”

The client is in charge at all times with Copilot. Customers choose what to modify, retain, or throw away. With these new resources, users can be more imaginative when using Word, analytical when using Excel, expressive when using PowerPoint, efficient when using Outlook, and cooperative when using Teams.

A whole new way to work

Microsoft 365 Copilot is seamlessly integrated into the apps people use every day, helping them stay in the flow of work and freeing them to focus more on the task at hand and less on the busy work.

• Copilot in Word writes, edits, summarizes and creates right alongside people as they work.
• Copilot in PowerPoint enables the creation process by turning ideas into a designed presentation through natural language commands.
• Copilot in Excel helps unlock insights, identify trends or create professional-looking data visualizations in a fraction of the time.
• Copilot in Outlook can help synthesize and manage the inbox to allow more time to be spent on actually communicating.
• Copilot in Teams makes meetings more productive with real-time summaries and action items directly in the context of the conversation.
• Copilot in Power Platform will help developers of all skill levels accelerate and streamline development with low-code tools with the introduction of two new capabilities within Power Apps and Power Virtual Agents.
• Business Chat brings together data from across documents, presentations, emails, calendars, notes and contacts to help summarize chats, write emails, find key dates or even write a plan based on other project files.

Based on decades of research, Responsible AI Standard, and Microsoft’s existing commitments to data security and privacy in the workplace, Microsoft has developed Microsoft 365 Copilot. Large language models used by Copilot are not trained on customer material or specific prompts. Enterprise-ready AI will be distributed at volume by Microsoft 365 Copilot.

Microsoft recently unveiled Dynamics 365 Copilot, the world’s first AI copilot in CRM and ERP, which aims to introduce next-generation AI to all lines of business. Now, Copilot is expanding to include all Microsoft productivity apps, such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, Microsoft Viva, Power Platform, and others. Details regarding pricing and licensing are forthcoming. Currently, a small group of customers is testing Microsoft 365 Copilot to collect vital feedback needed to enhance these models as they grow.

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