Microsoft 365 Copilot

Microsoft 365 Copilot is an AI-powered tool that helps with your work tasks.

Users enter a prompt in Copilot and Copilot responds with AI-generated information. The responses are in real-time and can include internet-based content and work content that users have permission to access.

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Microsoft 365 Copilot :

Pairs with the Microsoft 365 productivity apps that you use every day, like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and others.

So, you can use Copilot in Word to help create a document, in Excel to get suggestions for formulas, in Outlook to summarize an email thread, and in Teams to summarize meetings.

Uses content in Microsoft Graph to personalize the responses with a user's work emails, chats, and documents. Copilot only shows the data that users have permission to access.

Includes Microsoft 365 Copilot Search, a universal search experience that allows users to search across all their Microsoft 365 and third-party data sources to find what they need quickly.

Coordinates large language models (LLMs). LLMs are a type of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms. These algorithms use deep learning techniques and data sets to understand, summarize, predict, and generate content.

Copilot works with Microsoft 365 apps and Microsoft Graph

Copilot has intelligent features, functionality, and prompting. These features are designed to help users in the context of their work within their Microsoft 365 apps.

Microsoft's LLMs and other components work together. They help users securely access and use your organizational data with AI-powered capabilities. Specifically, Microsoft 365 Copilot uses the following components :

ai  Microsoft 365 apps :

Apps like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and Loop work with Copilot to support users in the context of their work. For example, Copilot in Word helps users create, understand, and edit documents.

ai  Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat :

With Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, you can draft content, review what you missed, and get answers to questions using open-ended prompts. This information is securely grounded in your work data.

ai  Microsoft 365 Copilot Search :

Copilot Search is an AI-powered universal search experience across all your Microsoft 365 applications and non-Microsoft data sources. It's integrated with Microsoft 365 Copilot, so users can find the results they need with search, then seamlessly transition to chat for deeper exploration or follow-up task completion.

ai  Microsoft Graph :

Microsoft Graph includes information on users, their activities, and the organization data they can access. The Microsoft Graph API brings a personalized context into the prompt, like information from a user's emails, chats, documents, and meetings.

ai  Semantic indexing for Microsoft 365 Copilot :

Microsoft 365 Copilot enhances search relevance and accuracy by using advanced lexical and semantic understanding of Microsoft Graph data, resulting in more contextually precise information retrieval. Copilot preserves security, compliance, and privacy, ensuring organizational boundaries are respected while offering seamless user experience.